Frame 'center' in visual composition
caoimghgin (842 pencils) | Tue, 2008-04-29 16:28Once upon I time, I easily googled a geometric method to find the visual center of an image floating in a defined white space...
For instance the visual center placement for a 5X7 image floating in a 11X17 white field is (as I understand it) a little bit higher than a true mathematical center.
The gods of google are not smiling upon me today.
Help?
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Ever heard of the 'align' tool?
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
Visually pleasant layout is not a hard and fast rule as technically aligning everything to a grid nor centering everything to an axis.
The question is if there is a guideline in figuring out a VISUALLY appealing center when framing an art. Which I would be really interested to find out myself. Anyone out there who works at an art framing shop? Photographers use the Rule of Third, but that's not really the solution here either.
Right. It has something to do with golden proportion. Still eluding my search efforts.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
I was able to find this.
http://tinyurl.com/4w2ehb
It's not the answer you are looking for, but it might help.
Golden Section Ratio articles I found (Also called Phi, or the Golden Mean):
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi.html#golden
http://www.missioncollege.org/depts/math/keller/golden.htm
http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/L_Diane_Johnson/The_Basics_of_Landscape_Composition.htm
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/GoldenSection.htm
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction
*whew!*
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
I came up with 81% on a calculation based on the golden ratio. The value is more of a hunch, but I think the results work.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
Thanks for sharing!
Actually, I goofed here. This is the correct way to do it. Sorry for multiple posts.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.