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Choose aesthetic images with clear permission and context

Illustrative situation

A draft gallery contains images with inconsistent lighting and unclear source and permission history. Viewers may interpret them as comparable evidence of expected outcomes. Images can imply results even when captions avoid an explicit promise. Review what a reasonable visitor might infer from the presentation, including lighting, framing and surrounding wording. Permission and source information should be clear before publication.

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What this means for your practice

Review image permission, source and explanatory context before choosing the final presentation. A visual should not imply an outcome the organisation cannot support with evidence.

An example to discuss with your team

Show the proposed gallery without the draft's surrounding explanation and ask the reviewer what a reasonable visitor might infer from it.

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What to discuss with your agency

Ask the reviewer to see the gallery on its own. Does it suggest a comparison or expected outcome that the evidence does not support? Keep AI-generated visuals separate from genuine outcome evidence: use them for clearly illustrative scenes, never as invented before-and-after results or fabricated patient examples.

Put the brief into practice

Decide the purpose of each image before selecting it. A picture may illustrate an environment, explain a process or document a real result, and those uses need different evidence and context. Keep permission for the intended publication, source information and relevant captions connected to the asset. Ask the reviewer what the overall presentation implies, especially where images are placed side by side or presented as a sequence. Differences in framing, lighting or other context can affect how a visitor interprets a comparison.

An AI-created illustration can support explanation but should not be presented as a real patient result, a genuine team photograph or evidence of your facilities. Review the gallery independently of the internal notes the design team has seen. If the public caption cannot support an accurate interpretation, reconsider the image or layout. Keep approval tied to the final crop and arrangement so later design changes do not introduce an implication the reviewer never assessed.

How to check the result

Count assets rejected or corrected because their context or permission was incomplete.

Turn reading into a next step

Your action checklist

Work through these checks with your team or supplier. Tick the ones you have resolved and leave unknowns open.

Checks to discuss

Record what you know, what is still missing and the answer you need from your team or supplier.

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Further reading

These sources provide background for the topic. The practice examples and checklist are illustrative planning suggestions from Kay & Co.

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