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You are here: Home / Blog / What’s a picture really worth?

June 17, 2007 by admin

What’s a picture really worth?

“A picture is worth a 1,000 words.” If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it 1,000 times. For those of us who write for a living, pictures don’t replace the words we write but give the words we do write a chance to sink in. How?

Pictures, images, even some of the very words we write used as pull-quotes improve readability. Instead of looking at a page entirely of text, the reader can pause a second to take in the picture or image. This lends favorably to the reader actually retaining something about what the written piece is about.

With people skimming through e-mails, newsletters, and articles at breakneck speed, adding images to a piece may not tell the entire story—but it will get the reader to slow down and maybe stay a short while, rather than clicking.

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Joe Deramo

About Joe D’Eramo

As young children growing up, nobody ever says, “I want to be a copywriter.” It’s an avocation that chooses you. Somewhere between writing articles for the school newspaper and a term paper for advertising and marketing class in college, a light goes on and shouts, “this is what I should do, be a … [Read More...]

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