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Video Creation: The Basics

TechSmith Camtasia

If you have a camera that shoots video and photos (like a DSLR) don’t forget to switch to photography mode and get high quality stills too. Shooting stills in photography mode will always produce better images than pulling from your video because they’ll be much higher resolution.

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Employee Highlight: Meet TechSmithie Katie Moore

TechSmith Camtasia

In our Employee Highlight series, we will introduce you to various TechSmith Team Members, or TechSmithies, as we like to call ourselves. My name is Katie Moore and I’m a senior marketing manager here at TechSmith. Staff development and training is really important to TechSmith so we spend a lot of time focusing on that.

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Making Digital Feedback Easy with Snagit

TechSmith Camtasia

This format is perfect for assignments that aren’t written, like digital photography or even web design (click the image to enlarge). When you’re done, you can automatically send the photo to Screencast.com , send an email the the image attached, or even to PowerPoint to collect examples to share in class.

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

Litmos

TechSmith: Snagit and Camtasia. Techsmith apps are made for content creation. Techsmith helps you create the media. Stock Photo Subscriptions. Up your image game significantly by applying stock photos to all of your work. This is a list of the applications that I find useful in creating training content.

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Image Cropping 101: The Basics

TechSmith Camtasia

To “crop” an image is to remove or adjust the outside edges of an image (typically a photo) to improve framing or composition , draw a viewer’s eye to the image subject, or change the size or aspect ratio. In other words, image cropping is the act of improving a photo or image by removing the unnecessary parts. The Rule of Thirds.

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Screencast of the Week - Red Gate, Coding by the Sea

TechSmith Camtasia

However, the team had come back from the coast with some great photos, a good story and a new product. I really wanted to communicate the human side of this story to our customers and so used multiple voice narrations running behind these images. . * Camera (not that you need a fancy one): Canon 5D SLR.

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Get the Big Picture with Panoramic Screen Capture

TechSmith Camtasia

A popular term in photography, panorama refers to a wide view of a large area, spanning multiple directions. Considered a technique all it’s own, panoramic photography has continued to evolve and is characterized by long, horizontal views, typically of landscapes, with perspectives that are similar to what we can see with the human eye.

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