A round-up of eleven crucial elements of design you can bring to your work to create lasting, successful images as a fine artist or photographer.

Part of being a successful artist is being good at constructing moving and memorable images to display and knowing how to identify and work with weaker areas of images in order to strengthen artistic quality.

In this article, I’ll share some of the elements of design to consider when creating and evaluating potential images for display or competition.

I’ve borrowed extensively from the judging criteria of the Professional Photographers of America, broadening the focus to include paintings and other styles of wall art media. The Professional Photographers of America has taken great care in producing a good compilation of common elements most great images share.

The image samples for this article are not all PPA qualified images due to their members’ individual copyrights, but I chose images to illustrate each of the points.

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