Friday, October 28, 2011

USING "PHOTO EDITING" TO ENHANCE YOUR CHER® REPORTS


Everyone knows “a picture paints a thousand words”. As professionals doing home evaluations or assessments, including pictures in your CHER® reports helps paint a picture for the reader. Pictures help portray an area of the home environment that is a barrier for the client and it may be difficult to describe. Things such as unsafe steps into the home, the lack of handrails along the steps to another level of the home, the lack of ADA compliant grab bars, etc. all present challenges for the elderly and someone with a disability.

After you’ve made a recommendation, there is a simple way to demonstrate in a photo what you are trying to achieve. For example, if you are recommending ADA compliant grab bars be installed in your client’s master bathroom, you can draw in the location of the grab bars using a copy of your original photo of the area in question. Simply make a “copy” of the original photo, then using a photo editing program such as Photoshop, Pixlr, etc., draw in lines where the grab bars need to be placed. When you are done, save the photo to your computer file and then upload the photo into your report. This enhancement will provide a visual image to your recommendation.

It should be noted that if you use a copyrighted image and alter it in any fashion and use it for commercial purposes, you should contact the owner of the image to obtain written permission to use the image.

You can find more tips and more information about the CHER® HERE.

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