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Creating content on The Rapidian: Photo essays

Have a story to tell in photos? This video walks you through creating a photo essay for The Rapidian.

Tricks of the Trade

This article is part of a series of videos and other instructional pieces geared to help the readers and reporters on The Rapidian be able to use our site more easily.

Other articles in the series will continue to build and include:

Adding an article

Adding a calendar event

Pitching a story

Hyperlinks

Embedding a video

If you have documented an event in photos, created a series of images that tells a story or just want to capture a part of Grand Rapids, a photo essay may be the best (and easiest!) way to share your photos.

Our photo essays start with uploading a set of photos to Flickr and end by adding them on your article.

Learn the steps by watching this short screencapture video.

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