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Preventing Blurry Pictures: The Keys to Clear Images

TechSmith Camtasia

Pixels work together by switching colors extremely fast to create a persistent and smooth viewing experience. Tips for resizing images: Maintain aspect ratio (ex: 4:3) to avoid distorting your image (stretching or squishing). PNG vs JPG. Two of the most common formats: PNG vs JPG. Digital displays are comprised of pixels.

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Newbies: More PowerPoint Hacks for Your Cp Project: Using PowerPoint Template Backgrounds in Your Captivate Master Slides

Adobe Captivate

You’ll need to change your File Type if it defaults to “Create PDF / XPS ” 4. To size the background image, I created a 1024X627 landscape file (72 resolution) and placed my Droplet image. I had to make some adjustments, while maintaining the aspect ratio to get fit the image exactly into 1024X627.

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8 Editing Techniques for Great Images in Lectora

eLearning Brothers

There you can sign up for a subscription or create a Free eLearning Templates account. (In Psst: Lectora supports.bmp,jpeg,png,tif,wmf and.emf file extensions). It’s important to update the name, which is automatically created by Lectora, especially if Alt tags are enabled, or if the course is going to be 508 compliant.

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The 12 Days of Screencasting - On the Ninth Day.

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasting can be a little bit daunting when faced with all the "techie" jargon like aspect ratios, codecs and frame rates. It's always good practice to try and record, edit and produce at the same dimensions i.e. make sure your clips and images (perhaps png files) are all the same size. Warm up your vocal chords and help me sing.

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How to Resize an Image Correctly

TechSmith Camtasia

Whether you want to build user documentation, give a presentation, or create a website, high-quality, appropriately-sized images will help you demonstrate competence and build trust with your audience. Prevent an image from appearing stretched by locking the aspect ratio when changing the width or height. What is an aspect ratio?

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A Simple Way to Build PowerPoint Graphics for Mobile Learning

Rapid eLearning

Most them work perfectly in one of two aspect ratios: 1:1 (square). I usually save in PNG format. Create PowerPoint Graphics to Use in Rise. Since there are two aspect ratios, I create two PowerPoint files for my Rise graphics. You can see the PowerPoint files I created for the scenario demo.

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YouTube Thumbnail Sizes and Best Practices (New for 2019)

TechSmith Camtasia

That’s why creating a great custom YouTube thumbnail is so important. The ideal thumbnail size is 1280 × 720 pixels with a minimum width of 640 pixels, and the ideal ratio for YouTube players and previews is 16:9. Along with the correct size, you’ll also want to keep in mind the ratio, file size, and file type of your thumbnail.

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