While I don’t believe in learning styles, I do believe people have preferences in how they might want to learn something. I myself prefer watching someone else perform a task and then repeat those steps building my muscle memory for those steps. For example, about once per year, I found it necessary to remove the background from an image. I bookmarked this video created by Allen Partridge from the Adobe eLearning team.
This video inspired me to start making my own YouTube videos. Of course, at the beginning of my YouTube channel, there were 6 subscribers (one might have been my mother), so really the first videos on my channel were really just for me. One reason was that when I figured something out in Adobe Captivate, I would worry that I would forget what I did.
This week I decided to update Allen’s video to include the latest version of Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop as a way of honouring his influence over my YouTube career and my decision to start my own freelance eLearning design and development business. Thanks Allen!
Paul your humor always makes me smile. A a cool mom myself I think it is awesome your mom is computer savvy and hip…and supportive of her awesome son!
Actually, I’m not really sure she ever subscribed or not. I’ll have to ask her.
Great tutorial Paul. I have two Photoshop suggestions. Rather than using the Marquee tool to create a selection and then going to the Image > Crop, I like using the Crop tool. You can either draw the rectangle OR click on the nodes on the side so you can adjust the size to be cropped. Then you just click the Commit button and you’re done.
The second suggestion is to look at Exporting the PNG. That could be a whole new video on that alone. I even still like to use File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy). It’s a great interface to help you optimise your images. You can preview the results before saving.
Thanks again for your great video tutorials Paul. You’re amazing.
Thanks Phil
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