How to match words with photos in the later stage of photography

Lead: Adding words to photos helps to guide people to watch photos better and improve the quality of photos. The premise is that you know how to better match the words and make the photos icing on the cake. Now I will study with you.

For a very simple example, take this photo as an example:

Although the text in this photo is eye-catching, it is peaceful and not aggressive. It focuses on describing facts and plays an auxiliary role. Even though its position is conspicuous, people pay limited attention to it, which belongs to text with photos rather than graphic design.

Of course, sometimes the boundary between the two is not obvious, such as:

The text of this work is peaceful and not aggressive, but it is carefully designed, and it is difficult for you to judge its nature from patterns to fonts. However, in a regular photo contest, it is generally not allowed to add decorative words. One of the reasons is that decorative words will make the picture form a sense of design and affect people's judgment on the picture itself. For example, this picture, you will think it is a very ordinary photo work without words, but you will feel better after adding words.

Let's start the text.

I summed up ten common ways of adding words:

If you can master the above ten kinds, it is more than enough for you to add words to the photos.

First, the text rendering type.

What is text rendering? Simply put, it is to make people pay more attention to words, and then optimize the picture with words. Huh? Is this a misunderstanding? Don't let words attract too much attention? Ahem, this is an exception.

Using this type, the most important thing is to choose a good font and handwriting? Rough body? Slender? The choice of font almost determines your final effect.

For example, this work:

Because words occupy a lot of space, people are easily attracted by it, and because words are extremely inflammatory, people's attention will stay longer. In the selection of fonts, a hard font is selected to match the picture, and the selection of black characters is also in place.

Second, the unpretentious type.

This type is very common and widely used. In short, this type is pure text, without color contrast, size contrast, font contrast and so on.

There are two basic types of this type: vertical and horizontal.

For example:

This is vertical.

Another example is:

This is horizontal.

The key of this type lies in: grasping the choice of font, spacing and text.

Fonts should be integrated with pictures, and the spacing should be increased or decreased as needed. Words cannot be incongruous with pictures.

I won't elaborate, because it's not clear in a few words.

Third, the shading type

What is the shading type? The text area has shading to separate the text from the picture.

The advantage of this type is that it can minimize the influence of pictures on words, give you more space to choose words and typesetting, and highlight words more effectively.

We often encounter such a situation. When we input characters on the screen, the characters are often hidden by the screen because of the little color difference. At this time, the shading type can solve this problem once and for all.

Of course, this type also has an obvious disadvantage, that is, if the arrangement is not good, it is like patching the picture.

For example:

In the picture below, because the overall tone is dark, if black characters are added, the characters will be illegible, and shading can effectively solve this problem.

The key of shading type is how to make shading better integrate into the picture without being abrupt. The main methods are as follows: make the shading itself have a sense of design. Second: adjust the opacity. Third, put some words outside the shading to strengthen the connection between the shading and the picture.

Fourth, the text line type

The so-called text line type means that there is a line in the text of the picture. This line usually has three forms: horizontal, vertical and oblique, and the line itself has two forms: solid line and dotted line.

Don't underestimate this line, it can play a great role, mainly reflected in balancing the picture, highlighting the level and guiding the viewer.

For example:

Borrow a few other answers:

The key of this type is to arrange the primary and secondary relations, choose lines and choose the placement position. ?

Verb (abbreviation of verb) font collocation type

Not much to say about this type, mainly the collocation of different font types, seeking common ground while reserving differences and highlighting key points. Personally, I suggest not too many fonts, 2-3 fonts are enough. In addition, it is recommended to match printed and handwritten characters. Font collocation also includes: Chinese and English collocation, text and number collocation, etc.

Six, color matching type

This is also very simple, so I won't expand it. The key points to pay attention to are: don't have too many colors, just 2-3 kinds, and don't have too high purity of colors, otherwise it will easily become mainstream.

Seven, size combination type

This is very simple, and it has been used before, which is to make the font change in size, so as to highlight the key points and change rhythmically.

Of course, there are many combinations, such as this one:

Eight, graphic mixed arrangement

That is, pictures are embedded in the text, which are generally composed of personalized signatures, totems, special symbols and so on. , can make the picture very active.

Nine, hollow type

The so-called hollow type means that the words are hollow. For hollowed-out type, attention should be paid to the selection of background color and font. On the one hand, the white background is good, of course, it would be better if you could choose a more suitable font, and the font should be wide enough, otherwise it will be completely ineffective if it is too thin.

Nine, seal type

This type of application is slightly narrower, mainly used in photos of Chinese style.