We're going to invariably end up using photographs in our work, it's just part of being a designer, working with photos. I love working with photos. There's some things to know though. One is, you're never stuck with an image. You can always do things to it to make it work more with your design. Let's say we have this photograph. We'll go back to the beach in New Zealand. It's a beautiful photograph, kind of. I'm the photographer in this case and I'm not trained, so you may find problems with it. But there are things we can do to this photograph to make it work with different designs to bring other things out of it, to push things back into it. I'll show you exactly what I mean. First is sublimation, and we'll talk about this later when we actually start building things in that part of the course. But for now, sublimation simply means how much of the background I can read through the photograph. In this case, we have a white background and the photograph is only about 50% opaque. That's a cool thing to do. Here's exactly the same thing but with the black background, completely changes the photo. I can drop white text over the top of it and it can look quite gorgeous. Grayscale, we all know what that is we simply make a color photograph into a black and white image. Cool trick, great thing to do with design for all sorts of reasons and all sorts of instances. In tint, we take all of the color out of the photograph, reinfuse it with a blue, or a yellow, or whatever we want, and we tint the photograph, so it's really all shades of blue. In this case, high contrast and low contrast, you probably know what those mean already. But we can push the contrast to make the photograph feel completely different and we can blur the photograph. Even in programs like PowerPoint, we can blur an image so that we can put things over it, and create the illusion of depth. Here's our title now for our guide for Trekking the Abel Tasman and we use a tinted background. We use a blurred background with a tint. All sorts of things you can do with photographs. I encourage you to experiment when you're using a photograph. Play with color, play with sublimation, play with opacity, all these things that we can do to make a photograph more interesting and to work better with our design. This type of intervention, working with photographs, can go on and on and on. Any of you who are Photoshop users already know that we can do things like this, which are really fun. But for the purposes of our course, we're not going to talk about manipulating things in Photoshop. We will talk about basic modification of photos, tinting, grayscaling, sublimation, so that we can make photographs work better with our design and do more interesting things than to just deal with a stock photograph. Remember, we're never stuck with a given image.