Thephotographermaywanttomakecertainimagesmore
dominantwithinthealbum,whileothersmaybe usedas
fillers.Thesize,colour,strengthofimageandopacityof
theimagesusedwilldictateahierarchywithinthealbum,
allowinginterestanddynamismtoflowfrompagetopage
without becoming monotonous.
Whendesigningthealbumthephotographermaywishto
groupsimilar imagesonto onepageto tella storyorto
strengthenthemessageoftheimage.Alsocertainimages
maybe used asbackground imagesto stronger ones by
simply reducing the opacity of the background image,
creating a texture and context with the main images
standing apart.
Decidinguponthecorrectorientationofthealbum,either
portrait or landscape, will be a consideration also, and
shouldbeguidedbythemajorityoftheimagestobeplaced
withinit;ifthemainbulkoftheimagesareoflandscape
orientation, theobvious choice would be to design to a
landscape format, thus displaying the images at their best.