You might like to see a slide show of different types of portrait photography for Facebook and Twitter

1. Social media portraits
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2. The importance of your portrait
• Its what people see of you
• It may be viewed on a small phone screen
• First impressions count, if the customer can’t
see you clearly they may not buy from you
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3. Picture too
small with a
cluttered
background
Text

4. Amateur
photographs
and those
taken with a
webcam
often get the
colours
wrong.
This picture
has a green
tint.

5. This picture
has got the
lighting
balance
wrong
between the
background
and face.

6. Notice the
distracting
background

7. This is a
nice portrait
with a clean
white
background.
The white
background
makes it
easy to see
on social
media pages

8. Here is the
same picture
in black and
white

9. Same black
and white
picture but a
high pass
filter has
been applied
to make the
background
grey

10. Want
something
different
how about
line drawing
portrait

11. Something
completely
different
tiled
portrait

12. Totally
different a
touch of
distortion

13. You may
also choose
to use a
prop

14. For your social media portrait, colour, black
and white or with a special effect contact
www.malyons.co