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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

#1: Distorted Images. A distorted image is a classic visual design mistake I see all the time, and it’s mostly an issue with attention to detail when resizing an image. An image gets distorted when the image is resized in such a way that it affects the aspect ratio of the image (i.e.,

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Free color contrast checker for PowerPoint

BrightCarbon

If you are wondering how to determine the best color contrast for PowerPoint, it’s your lucky day! We are releasing a free PowerPoint color contrast checker as part of our brilliant PowerPoint add-in, BrightSlide. Accessibility and PowerPoint presentations. Take me straight to the color contrast checker!

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3 Tips for Importing PowerPoint Slides Into Storyline

Tim Slade

One of the great features of Articulate Storyline is the ability to import slides from PowerPoint. you use in PowerPoint, they may or may not import properly into Storyline. Check out this post and video for three tips for importing PowerPoint slides into Storyline. By default, Storyline sets its slides to a 4:3 aspect ratio.

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The best free PowerPoint templates online

BrightCarbon

When creating presentations in PowerPoint it’s important to have a template to ensure design consistency, but it takes time, effort and skill to create high quality templates and masters. Of course, there are lots of places you can get free PowerPoint templates, but are they any good?

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5 IconLogic Mini-Courses That Need to Be on Your Radar

eLearning Brothers

Because there are so many different devices on the market with no set-in-stone standard aspect ratio for all these screens, some fancy programming has to come into effect. As such, Camtasia is an excellent tool for creating good eLearning using PowerPoint presentations, images, video, audio, and even quizzes.

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Adobe Captivate: If You Must Resize PowerPoint Presentations. Maintain!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel It's relatively simple to import a PowerPoint presentation into a Captivate project. You can import a presentation into a new project, or add PowerPoint slides to an existing project.   Before changing the Width or Height, you can select the Maintain aspect ratio check box.

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Tips for Importing from PowerPoint to Captivate

Integrated Learnings

Microsoft PowerPoint is a very powerful tool for creating presentations. This means that a lot of content is developed in PowerPoint. There are times when you may want to reuse content created in PowerPoint in e-learning. Captivate can bring in backgrounds, text, images, and even animations and timings. by Jonathan Shoaf.