The right image in the right spot can say more than thousands words, don’t you agree? Using a photo as a key element of web design can give your website an added visual element, as well as depth and space. It is certainly not every photo that will work, but generally if you find one that support the message you are trying to communicate the result can be really great. Using photos as a dominating part of the web design itself is typically seen in photography website templates and many are build on WordPress these days. While large photos can be great for setting the scene and generating the right atmosphere it can be a problem to load times. Designers need to take care that the details in the images are not making it too heavy when it comes to download size. Flash loaders may help here, but still the Internet generation will move on if they have to way a few seconds. In this article, tripwire magazine show you 20 stunning examples of using photos as a design element and central piece in a web design to get a point across to the viewers or to add more depth into the design.
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1. Les Galantes
2. Spencer Streets
3. Mission First
4. City Tag
5. Change Given
6. Le-Bk
7. JabberDust
8. Property Pass
9. Nick Cates Design
10. elettro.luce
11. Josh Sender
12. fix outlook
13. bressane
14. TN34
15. Killer Clothing
16. Raffaele Catania Designer
17. chopin2010
18. Antonio Floro Flores
19. 1md
20. hdqt
Please leave a comment if you know some great web sites where photos are dominating the design.
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Great post idea, and great examples. Thanks for sharing!
@Dimi, Thanks for your feedback. Yes it is always nice to find a topic that has not already been covered in 10 other articles
Yes,great post idea..thanks Dustin
This is a very nice looking site, but you should pay as much attention to the writing as the images. There are at least fifteen errors in the short paragraph that comprises this article.
very Nice post Thanks for this….
Not just great post idea, but great web designs also… Some designers might benefit from this as it might give them inspiration for something even better. I would never know about some of these if it wasn’t for this post.. Thanks…
@Paul, will look into that. Thanks for the comment
@warren, thank you so much
@jqueryFun, thanks for the like
@Arshad, thanks for your feedback
@Dimi, thank you.
Nice little feature…as the designer of the elettro-luce site its nice to get a heads up! With this site in question, the client couldnt be bothered to write decent copy, so i had make it more ‘visual’ than content driven
@barney, great to have one of the designers stepping by! Your design is great and yes it may compensate for bad copy…
seriously a nice set of photowebbing!
i like your style of post. Unique!
@leaflette, photowebbing… didn’t know that term. Thanks for your comment!
haha surely it does. i just created it back there.
nice collections! thanks for it!
I am always a fan of using large pictures and properly doing the CSS needed for them, I think my next site i will try that out
Shawn,
@Mississauga, good idea! Now you have some inspiration here you can use to get started
Whow, very impressive Designs.
My favorite is Raffaele Catania!
howdie, wonderful read. am subscribing.
Great collections and examples. Thanks for sharing!
there is no online and offline design
principles are always the same…
WOW! Your samples are indeed STUNNING! Great job especially numbers 15 and 16. Impressive! Keep up the good work!
Great post, do you mind if I re-blog this (with full attribution and linking)? I really want to share it with my readers, they would find it very useful.
Excellent post, one of the few articles I’ve read today that said something unique! One new subscriber here
Yeah.
I’m agree.
These web design are really stunning.
This inspire me so well to improve my site. Thanks
Inspiring. I particularly like the “fix outlook”.
Thanks for sharing.
Photographers know how to choose the right equipment to give them the best picture. They use different things such as lights, lenses, and film to create a picture. New digital technology is being used more and more by photographers. A lot of them use computers to finish their work.
Number 3 and 16 are great examples. A stunning photo can negate the need for complex design and over-detailed content. Thanks.
These are great examples. You have inspired me to hire a real photographer for my web design company. Istockphoto can only get you so far.
Thanks for sharing.
Some really great ideas here! I particularly like the fish one and the one with the empty chairs. Thanks Dustin
the categories related to this site are really awesome and especially the engine graphics are really amazing, visit me at
http://www.legitwebdesign.com.au/
thanks!
Remarkable designs seriously all ov these have stolen my heart for a while …………excellent.
I just love those designs, especially number 10, quite nice
very nice list!
This site is very nicec it is very great site
Nice examples, always liked websites created from pictures. When done well they can be very powerful visually and give the illusion of form.
Extraordinary list indeed. Gives many ideas and inspirations. My favorite of this group is Raffaele Catania.
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