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Improving Instructional Design with Images, Illustrations, and Animation

eLearningMind

Photographs can also be disengaging (think generic stock photography) or highlight a lack of diversity. If learners can’t see themselves reflected in the photography, they might feel alienated and disengaged. Imagine you’re creating a course on management policies and you choose to use stock photography.

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The case for clip art and stock photography

Clive on Learning

In the perfect situation you'd have unlimited time and money available when creating a presentation, print document or online learning materials. That's when I turn to clip art and stock photography. And there's a lot of poor clip art and stock photography out there which is horribly cheesy and, worse still, over-used.

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3 Techniques You Need to Stop Making Boring Screenshots

TechSmith Camtasia

It usually goes like this: Grab screenshot , make minor edit, share or paste in message, email, document, etc. More stamps, more templates, and even stock photography to spice up any of the three techniques I shared. I’m not saying you make boring screenshots. I’m just saying a lot of people make boring screenshots.

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Holiday Wish List for Corporate Training Professionals: Part 4 - Software for Content Creation

Litmos

These apps are even common amongst technical writers, and other document/media creation professionals. Stock Photo Subscriptions. Up your image game significantly by applying stock photos to all of your work. There are a few places to find free stock images but I recommend shutterstock. And they are the best.

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10 E Learning Creator Software

Ed App

It provides free and paid stock photography, fonts, illustrations, and templates in just one platform, which helps users easily design visually engaging content – even with little to no knowledge of or experience in graphic design.

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10 Low-Cost Ideas for Employee Training

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

For the photos in your webinar, you can take your own (make sure you get permission before you start snapping away though) or look to free stock photo sites such as Pixabay, Unsplash, or RawPixel. INTERACTIVE DOCS + FLIPBOOKS Have you ever thought about adding a little kick to your documents? So, what will it cost me?

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Snap happy

Clive on Learning

For $1 a time, I've been able to download masses of fantastic images for blogging, print documents and presentations. I really can't see any snags at this price, which from what I can remember is a tint fraction of what you used to have to pay for stock photography.