A good photo can fall apart the moment it lands in a layout. It might be sharp, well lit, and technically “correct,” but if there’s no room for text, the colours fight the design, or the subject faces the wrong way, the image starts working against the message. That’s where a designer’s mindset changes everything. Thinking like a designer means planning the photo before you pick up the camera. It means asking where the image will live, what shape it needs to fill, what