Taking Great Photos For Your Personal Checks

A popular option for personal checks today are those fitted with custom photos that you provide to the printer, which they then use as the instrument’s main design.  Whether you want the custom picture sitting in the background or stealing all the attention right up front, you’ll need to make sure you choose the right photo, lest risking making your personal checks look like a badly-design fake draft.

Make The Subject Simple

Complex photographs, like a mass of people or those taken from some abstract angle, can look distracting on a check.  Even worse, you risk blurring whatever message the photo is trying to send.  Simple photos, on the other hand, often look great on check faces.  As a result, straightforward images like a portrait head shot, a photo of your main product or your company’s logo usually work very well.

Close-Up Shots

Photos with plenty of distracting backgrounds can fail in massive ways when used on check faces.  When shooting specifically for use on your personalized checks, keep the main subject in tight focus, filling as much of the frame as possible.

Use High Quality Images

Since it will appear on a relatively small check, many people make the mistake of using low-resolution images.  Check printers aren’t magicians and, as such, can only work with what they get.  The better your photo, the more they can likely do to present it well.