Tricks to Make your Images Informative

This is the age of digitization, where every second of the day sees rise and fall of some or the other blog. A company spends millions of dollars on its advertising and PR. Images make one of the best ways to attract visitors on your blog. These don’t require any textual or audio description for your blog. The visitor has only few seconds to identify and find whether the content on your blog is worthy or not.

Today we will be discussing some of the best ways so that the use of images on the blogs can be improved.

1. Expand your content: Place your images at the appropriate places and use self-explanatory and illustrative images on your blog posts so that the users can have an idea of what you are sharing in your blog post. The best ways to do this is to have a small demo video which you can help visitors understand the concept better. There are times when you are illustrating the use of certain software like Photoshop or Flash, there you have to include some screenshots so that user takes interest in it.
2. Highlighting the important aspect: In writing a tutorial post, it gets pretty difficult when you want your users to focus on certain aspect of the software. The user won’t be interested in viewing an image that has lots of tags. The best that can be done here is to highlight the notable features and use the side labels that would explain it a bit more.
3. Using “Zoom” Effects: This is another effect that is widely used by the designers and bloggers worldwide. In this effect, you expand your images along with some added features when the user hovers his cursor over the image. This effect is largely used on homepage of YouTube where the main sponsored ads get enlarged when the users hovers their cursors over them.
4. Using Simple Labels: The labels are widely used in the illustrations and explanations of simple diagrams or images. The best example of these simple image effects are largely used on the Apple’s iPhone 4S section where the device labelling is done. Many other designers use the labels to explain the working of softwares and in screenshots.