User blog:Belle pullman/Headshot Headaches

So, between desktop and mobile layouts, historical sources and modern tech, and to an extent - just interest - we've standardised headshots too 200 x 200px - this works best on different layouts, keeps it compact, is still big enough to be recognisable.

I've also been copying the style used on - I can't remember right now which production, but they used a yellow border on all the headshots, which tends to make them look rather good, in my opinion!

But. The later years in London went rather OTT on the "ripped paper" motif that's always featured to some extent - every single London headshot has the ripped edge. So how do I work that into the scanned headshots? Especially given that I don't have all THAT much patience for this job, I'm not going to carefully edit it out...

These already scanned headshots show how cropping off that white border can take quite a lot of the image off with it... but is that a price worth paying to minimise distractions and just show the photo?