Photo File Formats: A Ministry Guide (How to Change Them)
Visuals play an important role in conveying ministry messages effectively. Photo file formats enter the picture to add complexity and questions (with resolution affecting the finished quality and physical size of the image too). Whether it's for website content, social media posts, email communication, your bulletin, or submissions to publications, choosing the right photo format is crucial. Let’s define common formats, when to use them, and how to easily change/convert them if needed.
NOTE: Lossless vs Lossy photo file formats are important to understand. When compressing files, to take up as little storage space as possible, the file format sometimes takes lossless formats (full size, no reduction in quality) and makes it lossy (reduced quality based on settings). Be careful which...
Your church doesn’t need a printed bulletin (3 reasons)
Few good things came from COVID; except perhaps, many Pastors realized their church doesn’t need a printed bulletin. During that period of time, Churches couldn’t distribute printed bulletins because attendance went online; and when we returned, many stopped handing out printed materials.
And the church didn’t fail because of it! But, if the church doesn’t need a printed bulletin, how do people find out what’s going on? Is it even possible?
Yes. And here are 3 reasons why you don’t need to return to a printed bulletin (so resist the urge)!
Ministry cost savings. Consider the paper cost, the design and layout time (which equates to cost), and the printing of multiple copies! A lot of our church resources go into...