Exercise 14: Two images on the same page - Lyme Regis harbour

These two images are the start point for combining them on to one page.

The layout below seems pretty standard to me with an equal amount of border around both images.  Both pictures are the same size which makes the whole page all equal but rather boring.

 Here we have the same two pictures in the same position but the top one is slightly larger and overlaps the lower one.  This gives the page a link between the two images and allows the reader to move around the page and on to the next page.  It has a sort of balance with room for text beside each image.

The next image has both images the same size and on the same side of the page.  This leaves room for text on the left hand side of the page and is used frequently for magazine layouts.  The text can be inserted in one or two columns as is deemed appropriate.

Another way of displaying two images on the same page is to make one the dominant picture and the second one smaller which allows for a caption each picture.  I think this looks slightly unbalanced but I have seen it used fairly frequently in teen magazines.

Finally I placed them in opposite corners and different sizes to see what effect they had on each other and on the page itself.  This way text can flow around each picture and allow the reader's eye to flow on to the next page without any barrier.  This is also another popular way to layout a page of text and two images, albeit of different sizes.

Overall, I like the last one best of all as it allows text to flow round the images and gives a good balance to the page.