Digital photographs are used across many media sectors to promote products and services. Some key uses include: - Newspaper front pages use photographs to illustrate stories and grab readers' attention. - Magazine covers feature photographs of authors and celebrities to promote issues. - Music album and CD covers prominently display photographs of artists. - DVD covers often include photographs of main actors to promote films. - Book covers sometimes feature photographs of authors to identify content. - Instruction manuals sometimes incorporate photographs to demonstrate procedures. - Billboards and websites use photographs in advertising and promotion across media.

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2. E-NEWSPAPERS (FRONT PAGE)
• The news media or news industry are those elements of the mass
media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target
public. These include print
media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast
news (radio and television), and more recently the Internet (online
newspapers, news blogs, etc.). The news media or news industry are
those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the
general public or a target public. These include
print media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast news (radio
and television), and more recently the Internet
(online ...Newspapers increasingly use photographs to illustrate
stories. The front page usually has the biggest headline. The designer
usually includes other little headlines included in the newspaper so the
audience buy the actual newspaper.

3. E-MAGAZINES (COVER)
• E-Magazine covers are used worldwide across multi- medias
as various magazines are distributed online.
• An online magazine is a magazine published on
the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other
forms of public computer networks. One of the first
magazines to convert from a print magazine format to
being online only was the computer magazine Datamation.
• Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide
Web call themselves webzines. Some online magazines may
refer to themselves as "electronic magazines" or "e-
magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to
capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches
• Many large print-publishers now provide digital
reproduction of their print magazine titles through various
online services for a fee. These service providers also refer to
their collections of these digital format products as online
magazines, and sometimes as digital magazines.
• Online magazines representing matters of interest to
specialists in or societies for academic subjects, science,
trade or industry are typically referred to as online journals.

4. CD/COVER THUMBNAILS
• Cd/ cover thumbnails are used across various media sectors such as
the music industry mainly. Soundtracks are included in films and
moving images in the TV industry.
• These covers are used across the media sector due to the popularity
and unique way of an artist raising awareness of their new
single/album.
• Photography is used as the artist/s will take a photoshoot for their
CD, and cover thumbnails, for online etc.
• An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially
released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to
either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of
10 in (25 cm) and 12 in (30 cm) 78-rpm records, single and sets of
12 in (30 cm) LPs, sets of 45 rpm records (either in several connected
sleeves or a box), or the front-facing panel of a CD package, and,
increasingly, the primary image accompanying a digital download of
the album, or of its individual tracks.
• In the case of all types of tangible records, it also serves as part of the

5. DVD COVERS (FILMS)
• DVD Covers are used frequently in the film industry
• The cover of DVDS became an important part of the culture of
film
• Under the influence of designers renowned for being a
marketing tool and an expression of film intent
• Cover art it is either an artwork
as illustration or photograph on the outside of a published
product such as a book (often on a dust
jacket), magazine, comic book, video game (box
art), DVD, CD, videotape, or music album (album art). The art
has a primarily commercial function, i.e. to promote the product
it is displayed on, but can also have an aesthetic function, and
may be artistically connected to the product, such as with art by
the creator of the product.
• Photographers will take photoshoots of the main actors in the
film, so the audience know is starring in the latest film
• This is used across the media sector so the film gain popularity

6. BOOKS (COVER)
Whether printed on the dust jacket of a hardcover book, or on the
cover of a paperback, book cover art has had books written on the
subject, and numerous artists have become noted for their book
cover art, including Richard M. Powers and Chip Kidd. A book
cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of
of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction
between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives
and additions, such as dust jackets, ring-binding, and older forms
such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional
types of hand-binding. This article is concerned with modern
mechanically produced covers.
Digital photographs of book covers are used frequently in the
media sector as photographers take photoshoots of authors, actors
who are in films, etc. Book covers usually catch the audience eye
due to the creativity or colour used.

7. INSTRUCTION/TRAINING MANUALS
ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS)
• Instruction training manuals assembly instructions are used in the media
industry as when you want to shoot a video shoot, copyrights of photography,
etc you have to get permission or permission paper work to fill out
• Other ways of assembly instructions are from the simplest things such as
building something
• You use this as you create your own media product, you personalise it yourself.
• Digital photographs are used in this sector as they use the images to make the
manual relate to the audience. e.g. muscly men in the photo shoot for a
workout manual

8. ADVERTS (ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS)
• A digital billboard is a billboard that displays digital images that are
changed by a computer every few seconds. Digital billboards are
primarily used for advertising, but they can also serve public
service purposes.
• Digital photographs are used worldwide in billboards
• Graphic designers design billboards
• online advertising formats, billboard advertising has remained a
constant, with both major national and SME’s choosing this as their
preferred method of outdoor advertising

9. INTERACTIVE MEDIA (WEBSITES)
• Interactive media normally refers to products and services on
digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's
actions by presenting content such as text, moving image,
animation, video, audio, and video games.