Photographic Cut and Cut-Out Pictures.
Why not leave the standard layout behind and replace or complement it by unusual cuts and cut-out pictures to create highlights?
Catching the Eye by Cutting the Photo. The newspaper "Dolomiten" might serve as a role model here: a page-high and one-column-wide photo is the eye-catcher. Another unusual cut has been made with the portraits accompanying the survey on the lower half of the page. Why not use a landscape-format for faces? The overall impression created here by photographic cut is modern, exciting, and new.
Undecided. "Die Presse" shows almost only background in the photo - a signal for the beginning of coalition negotiations.
Loosening-Up Exercise 1. Especially on pages dealing with beauty and fitness "Stuttgarter Nachrichen" break up their layout by cut-out pictures. The photo at the bottom is an eye-catcher because of its unusual cut.
Loosening-Up Exercise 2. Especially when reporting on election campaigns good ideas are needed for an entertaining presentation of lengthy interviews. "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" use page-high and one-columnwide photos for highlights on their pages.
Hard Cut
Some editorial staffs are still in two minds about hard cuts with portraits. The readers are used to photos in landscape format from TV. Vertical formats, in comparison, appear to be very inconspicuous.