@domandigital/craft 0.20.3 → 0.20.4

package/CHANGELOG.md

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 # @domandigital/craft
 
+## 0.20.4
+
+### Patch Changes
+
+- cc6c0b4: Document opening-photo selection using the Bellerose follow-up: compare photographic strength, crop and sequence before service variety or slide count, with stakeholder preference kept separate from unmeasured customer outcomes.
+
 ## 0.20.3
 
 ### Patch Changes

package/CHARACTER.md

@@ -589,6 +589,33 @@ before reading stakeholder recommendations when possible; if feedback is already
 known, record that limitation. A preferred example is useful calibration, not a
 universal order, a conversion claim or an exemption from future scrutiny.
 
+#### Select photographs for their position in the sequence
+
+Review every proposed opening photograph at the intended size and crop, in order.
+Service coverage alone does not make a photograph suitable for the opening.
+Compare clarity, framing, visible completion, distracting surroundings and the
+visual standard set by the lead image. A technically sound carousel can still
+weaken the page when its later slides are noticeably poorer.
+
+On 18 October 2026, after approving Bellerose's mobile flow, Dmitri pointed out
+that the radiator and kitchen-tap slides did not compare with the first bathroom
+photograph. The initial selection had favoured showing different services. A
+review of the available photographs found that the radiator's unfinished edge
+and dust sheet, and the tap's busy surroundings, weakened the opening sequence.
+The approved revision kept the bath-and-shower photograph and used the twin-basins
+photograph second. The lower captioned project gallery retained its service
+coverage. The two bathroom views are not evidence of two separate jobs.
+
+The reusable lesson is to choose the strongest coherent sequence the available
+assets support, then let that determine the count. Two strong images can serve
+an opening better than three padded for variety; this is not a rule to always
+use two images, bathrooms or a carousel. Useful job-record photographs can still
+belong beside a service or further down the page. Do not fabricate or retouch
+work into completion to fill a slot. Record rejected candidates, the intended
+crop, the reason for the choice and the stakeholder response with the rendered
+comparison. Here the evidence is visual judgement and an approved preference;
+customer behaviour and enquiry effects remain unmeasured.
+
 #### Using it
 
 Generating a page: run `craft direction research`, which asks where the

package/README.md

@@ -364,3 +364,5 @@ widget name no longer proves duplication. A smaller implementation does not
 select a better design automatically. Protected staging reviews may reserve
 explicitly marked publication assets while reporting `publicationReady: false`.
 See CHARACTER.md, “Context and learning from a later result”.
+
+Opening photographs are selected as a rendered sequence: compare their quality and crop before filling a slide count or covering every service. See [Select photographs for their position in the sequence](./CHARACTER.md#select-photographs-for-their-position-in-the-sequence) for the Bellerose follow-up and its limits.

package/package.json

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 {
   "name": "@domandigital/craft",
-  "version": "0.20.3",
+  "version": "0.20.4",
   "private": false,
   "description": "The Doman Digital house craft standard as numbers: OKLCh colour ramps that snap to existing anchors, derived semantic tokens with measured WCAG and APCA contrast, one shared motion vocabulary for CSS and JS, and a base stylesheet. Zero dependencies.",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",