{"id":308,"date":"2025-07-08T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/jp\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:41:17","slug":"tips-for-headshots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/wordpress\/build-a-website\/images\/tips-for-headshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for headshots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">Each face and photo is different: these are guidelines, not rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45rem\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checkmark-list\">\n<li>Crop headshot images square.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imagine a tic-tac-toe grid over the image that divides it into thirds (shown below in blue).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Center the face horizontally within the middle third.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Center the eyes vertically on the line one third from the top.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resize to 720px \ud835\uddd1 720px for the website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce the file size by adding compression when saving as jpeg. 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