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Example images

Here are some images which might be considered for inclusion on a school web site. Alongside each image we have included some comments and, where appropropriate, relevant links.

Note that these images (excluding the final two) were not taken from school web sites, but adapted from other images found on the Internet.

Individual Child 1

Issues with this image:

• Individual child
• Easily identifiable
• High quality image - potential for digital manipulation

This image is small, quick to load and clear. However, the child concerned is easily identifiable and the resolution of the image is such that it could be digitally manipulated into another format or in conjunction with another image.

Individual Child 2 & 3

Issues with these images:

• Individual child in each image
• Easily identifiable - one image even includes a name badge
• Image appears to be low quality but is actually high quality

At first these images appears very small and it appears that there is no potential for digital manipulation. However, the actual size of the images differs from the size that they are displayed on the page, allowing anyone who downloads them to see a much larger image.

• Click on either of these images to see their actual size (use your browser's Back button when you have seen it)

Group of Children 1

Issues with this image:

• Need to ensure that consent has been obtained for each child in the picture
• If consent has not been obtained for one of the children or has been refused and the child is at one edge of the photograph, then the image can be cropped and still used
• If the child is in the centre of the photograph, then the photograph effectively becomes unusable - even if the child in question is masked or removed in some way:

Usable	Potentially Unusable
Image cropped	Child blurred digitally	Child removed digitally

Group of Children 2

Issues with this image:

This type of group photograph would be good for illustrating a class's page or a part of the web site celebrating the achievements of a sports team. There are a number of issues associated with this sort of image, many of them stemming from the fact that it has been taken with a digital camera.

• The image has been inserted in the web page at the same size that the camera captured it and then 'shrunk' to fit on the page. This means that although the image appears smaller it is in fact still 'full size' - click here to see how big the image really is.
• Due to the large size of this image, it effectively becomes a series of individual images, each of which can be extracted from the main image
• The image should be resized to a suitable size (for example 400 pixels wide, rather than the current 1436 pixels wide).

School Details 1 & 2

Issues with these images:

• Images such as these give any visitor to your web site a complete overview of the school
• These plans can create issues around child protection ("Here are the boys changing rooms... here is an external door next to them")
• Some schools choose to publish plans of near-architectural detail giving information about doors, windows, fire exits and other access points
• If you published this information showing the location of your ICT suite and subsequently equipment was stolen from the ICT suite during a break-in, would your school's insurers look kindly on the fact that you published this sort of information?