The document provides guidelines for editing photos for multimedia storytelling. It states that photographers may edit photos to make them look more like what was seen with the naked eye, but they cannot add or remove anything from the photo. Specific allowed edits include cropping to improve composition, improving overexposed or underexposed shots, adjusting colors for realism, and sharpening for enhanced clarity. Photographers are instructed to avoid setting up shots or cleaning up and to capture subjects as they are.

1. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING ● FALL 2012
Editing Photos
What Are Multimedia Storytellers Allowed To Do?
Bruce Clary, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas

2. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
The General Guidelines

3. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
The General Guidelines
• You may edit photos to render them more like what
the photographer saw with the naked eye.

4. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
The General Guidelines
• You may edit photos to render them more like what
the photographer saw with the naked eye.
• You may not add, remove, or alter anything in the
photo. In other words, you may not do anything to
the photo that changes what the photographer saw
with the naked eye.

5. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
Review: When you shoot…

6. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
Review: When you shoot…
• Avoid setting up and cleaning up

7. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
Review: When you shoot…
• Avoid setting up and cleaning up
• Within reason… Do you not tell your subjects
what to do.

8. CM210 MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING I ● FALL 2012
AR340 WEB-BASED DESIGN ● FALL 2010 2010
Review: When you shoot…
• Avoid setting up and cleaning up
• Within reason… Do you not tell your subjects
what to do.
• Do not rearrange settings… You are capturing
your subjects “the way they really are.”

9. Multimedia Journalists May…
Crop to Improve Composition

10. Multimedia Journalists May…
Crop to Improve Composition

11. Multimedia Journalists May…
Improve Overexposed Shots

12. Multimedia Journalists May…
Improve Overexposed Shots

13. Photographers May…
Improve Underexposed Shots

14. Photographers May…
Improve Underexposed Shots

15. Photographers May…
Adjust Colors…for Realism

16. Photographers May…
Adjust Colors…for Realism

17. Photographers May…
Sharpen…for Enhanced Clarity

18. Photographers May…
Sharpen…for Enhanced Clarity