Looking for thoughts on graphics
I just recently got into the Adobe Education Exchange and I have signed up for a few courses so I can up my skills with some of the creative cloud apps I have access to. I have some work to do, but I was thinking improving my Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills could come in handy in my eLearning projects.
It got me thinking, where do others get their resources for graphics – specifically, buttons, backgrounds, and anything else really. Not images, specifically, but any graphic elements you use.
Do you use the creative cloud apps to create them? Do you just go the freebie or paid route?
Just curious, as I am about a lot of things.
Looking forward to hearing about this.
Thanks.
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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
You’re welcome!
Odd as it may sound – I use PowerPoint to create many of the buttons, graphics, and shapes that I use in my Captivate projects. I love the ease of editing and the ability to combine shapes together into one or cut pieces out of shapes to create new ones.
PowerPoint. Interesting. That is insightful. Thank you.
Never thought of it, but sure makes sense for simple buttons!
Very good point!
I am just guessing, because you don’t mention Adobe Captivate in your statements. It is for me the core application I am using to creare eLearning assets. I know that Education Exchange is almost ignoring Captivate. FYI I am an alumni Adobe Education Leader and that attitude towards Captivate has always cause me many frustrations.
If you do not use Captivate, you can indeed used InDesign to create some ‘interactive’ e-books but the result will not only take a lot more work than with Captivate, you will also miss some essential features like SCORM compliancy which allows to collaborate with a Learning Management System.
To answer your question: I use available free or licensed graphics which you can find everywhere (Adobe Stock is accessible from Captivate, but you also have a native Assets library and access to the eLearnin Brothers library). But I also use CC applications as well. For buttons Captivate has all on board what you need, seldom need to use other CC apps. I use:
- Photoshop roundtripping to create or edit bitmap images; Captivate has a great roundtripping feature, where you can use comps, layers as images, and keep the link with the source PS file. See this recent blog:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/roundtripping-with-adobe-photoshop-in-2020 - I use PS as well to create animated GIFs to be used in Captivate
- Audition roundtripping either to create or to edit Voice overs (essential in eLearning)
- Illustrator: to create or extract SVGs
- Animate: to create HTML animations (OAM); although for a quick animation I often return to Edge Animate (easier)
- The app Capture or Color for inspiration about a Theme colors palette, and images.
- More rarely: Character Anmator and After Effects
- Also occasionally: Premiere Pro for video editing
- All the time: Adobe Media Encoder for optimization of the media assets
Hope this was the type of answer you were expecting?
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