Let's face it, image cropping and manipulation is hard. It can be frustrating to take photos of all of your conference rooms, events, or equipment and upload them, only to find they don't quite work with the size constraints in Coworks. We've outlined some simple steps to ensuring good photos.
How to take good conference room and equipment photos
Take photos in landscape mode (horizontal)
When you take photos in portrait mode (vertical), it limits your ability to crop in a horizontal shape. This is especially important for Events, Conference Rooms, Spaces, and Equipment in Coworks. Those images are horizontal in nature and require you to crop to a horizontal rectangle. With a landscape image, you have a lot more on the left and right to "play with" when you're cropping.
Make sure when taking the images you capture a little bit more in the frame than what you anticipate on using. This ensures that when you do go to crop, you have some actual pictures of the room or object instead of just white space.
This is an example of a bad image:
See how zoomed it is and how you don't get any context about the rest of the room? When you go to crop this image, you will be faced with this dilemma:
This makes you choose only part of an already constrained image!
Now here's a good image:
See how much more "play" you will get when you head over to the cropper?
This creates a much nicer final product image that will look great in Coworks.
It's also important to note that the higher the resolution of the image, the better the image will look.
Happy cropping!