Please click into each section below to learn more about images.
View the St. Cloud State University brand guidelines.
With the introduction of our latest page elements, the recommended dimensions may vary depending upon the use case. Please visit each of the page elements to view our recommended image dimensions. If you have further questions about the recommended image dimensions, please email the Web Team.
Faculty and staff images should be sized to 300x300 and saved as a JPG. The existing size is 100x100 and that size should only be used if the native image is smaller than 300x300. Please email the Web Team if you need assistance sizing images.
Image cropping and resizing may sound like performing the same task but there are distinct differences between the two. If you need assistance cropping or resizing images, please email the Web Team.
Cropping an image involves removing a portion of the image that you don’t want to include. For example, if you have an image with a person next to a lake and if you need to remove the lake from the image, you will crop the lake out of the image.
Resizing an image means making an image either smaller or larger. Typically, you will make the image smaller as increasing the native image size may cause the image to become pixelated and/or blurry.
Applying images to a page is a two-step process.
Images are applied throughout 3 different locations in the page template: