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amalthiaFirst, I love artwork in stories cover images are awesome and I love it when people use images to show section breaks and I’m all for artwork in stories.
However, there are some things to keep in mind if you plan on incorporating images into your story.
First, if the image contains a crucial plot point, please do not rely solely on the image alone. Especially if the image is hosted on livejournal, photobucket, flicker, and other websites that host images. A lot of work places do ban these sites and if someone is reading at work and they get to the scene where your picture with the letter/note/crucial plot point is located and they can’t see the image that’s kind of a problem.
There are ways around this. One is to write out the letter like the image isn’t there and make it part of the story. Another way is to host the image somewhere that's generally not blocked by filters at most workplaces.
One thing to keep in mind too is that you may want to use the < img scr=”image name.jpg” alt=”type your message given on the picture/graphic here” > this code will help vision impaired users to listen to your story and know what type of image you’re using.
I discovered this reading an RTF story on my ebook reader. I got to the section where the image had information that I needed to understand what was going on but because Sony never fixed the RTF display problems…I can only guess what was said on the picture that changed the character’s mind. That's just one example of what can go wrong if you depend on your image to impart crucial information. But I've had this happen before in the past when reading a fic on DW, my workplace has blocked every single photo sharing site I know of and so while I could read the fic I could not see any of the images hosted off DW.
However, there are some things to keep in mind if you plan on incorporating images into your story.
First, if the image contains a crucial plot point, please do not rely solely on the image alone. Especially if the image is hosted on livejournal, photobucket, flicker, and other websites that host images. A lot of work places do ban these sites and if someone is reading at work and they get to the scene where your picture with the letter/note/crucial plot point is located and they can’t see the image that’s kind of a problem.
There are ways around this. One is to write out the letter like the image isn’t there and make it part of the story. Another way is to host the image somewhere that's generally not blocked by filters at most workplaces.
One thing to keep in mind too is that you may want to use the < img scr=”image name.jpg” alt=”type your message given on the picture/graphic here” > this code will help vision impaired users to listen to your story and know what type of image you’re using.
I discovered this reading an RTF story on my ebook reader. I got to the section where the image had information that I needed to understand what was going on but because Sony never fixed the RTF display problems…I can only guess what was said on the picture that changed the character’s mind. That's just one example of what can go wrong if you depend on your image to impart crucial information. But I've had this happen before in the past when reading a fic on DW, my workplace has blocked every single photo sharing site I know of and so while I could read the fic I could not see any of the images hosted off DW.