It can be insanely hard to find high quality, high-res free stock photos for personal and commercial use. Source: These 39 Sites Have Amazing Stock Photos You Can Use For Free — Vantage — Medium
From Articulate by Tom Kuhlmann URL: http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/ When designing the visuals for an elearning course there are only so many things that fit on the screen and one of the most important of those things is a character. Here’s why. E-Learning Characters Initiate Engagement Adding the right image initiates engagement because it draws the learner’s attention,…
From Articulate by Tom Kuhlmann URL: http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/create-hand-drawn-custom-characters/ In previous posts we discussed how visual thinking helps us focus on core concepts and teaches us to communicate those with graphics and other visual elements. We also looked at ways to practice developing your visual thinking skills so that you can effectively apply them to your course design.…
From Articulate by Tom Kuhlmann URL: http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/customize-free-stock-photos-presentations/ Most of us are scrambling to find free assets to use in our presentations and elearning courses. The good news is that there are more than enough free stock images available, such as these three earlier posts where I shared 80 free stock photos, 45 free stock photos, and 60…
From SHIFT’s eLearning Blog by Karla Gutierrez URL: http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog/10-types-of-visual-content-elearning We love visuals. In fact, we are wired to respond more to visuals than to words. That is why, we are so hooked to Pinterest and Instagram. This is also the reason why Facebook posts and tweets with images get liked and are retweeted the most. But as…
From eLearning Brothers by Brother Sean URL: http://elearningbrothers.com/dont-always-put-elearning-graphics/ As a child, I treasured the public library with all my heart. Something about having all that information in one place was just exhilarating to me. What a nerd, right? There was one book in particular that I checked out so often I might as well have bought…
From Articulate by Tom Kuhlmann URL: http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/60-free-stock-images/ Now that Microsoft’s quit providing free clip art and free stock images many of you are scrambling to get hold of free resources to use for your elearning and training development. Download Free Stock Images In a previous post I shared 45 free stock images via the Unsplash site.…
From Articulate by Tom Kuhlmann URL: http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/free-people-icons-e-learning/ Free people icons are great when they’re truly free to use for commercial courses. And who doesn’t like them, especially now that Microsoft no longer offers free clip art? Here’s a list of some free icons. I only link to the ones that are free for commercial use. That…
From eLearning Industry by Christopher Pappas URL: http://elearningindustry.com/6-graphic-design-best-practices-elearning-professionals eLearning professionals may not be experts in the field of graphic design. After all, we have to wear enough hats already that adding one more to the pile may be just too much to bear. However, if you want to create eLearning courses that are immersive and engaging for…
From eLearning Brothers by Brother Shawn URL: http://elearningbrothers.com/quickly-recolor-vector-images/ Sometimes you put in countless hours of work on a vector image project, only to have someone come in at the last minute and alert you that either the color scheme is not what they wanted, or it shouldn’t be in color at all. You poured your heart…
