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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

When scaling your image, it’s crucial to maintain the ratio of width to height, known as aspect ratio, so it doesn’t end up stretched or warped. Prevent an image from appearing stretched by locking the aspect ratio when changing the width or height. What is an aspect ratio? What does DPI mean?

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YouTube Thumbnail Sizes and Best Practices (New for 2019)

TechSmith Camtasia

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. Use Snagit’s convert to PNG button to turn your video still into an image.

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How to use Photoshop for eLearning – Part 2: Cropping & Resizing

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You can also choose to save a compressed version of the file in a web standard like JPEG, PNG or GIF. To proportionally adjust an image to a certain size, it has to retain the same ratio or it will be distorted. The Anchor arrows allow you to choose the reference point Photoshop will use to make changes. Go try it out now.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

A small unit of a larger piece of learning content is referred to as a chunk. Face to face training refers to the in-person elements of instructor-led training. PNG (Portable Network Graphics). PNG is a file format that supports lossless data compression. It’s designed to make assimilation more manageable for learners.

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Optimize your eLearning courses for mobile

LearnUpon

Aspect ratios need to be maintained so that an image is not skewed when viewed on different devices. As you can see below, as LearnUpon is subjected to size changes the web application ‘responds’ and changes the format of the page to maintain image aspect ratios, text sizes and navigation options. Authoring Tools. Navigation.

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Google Slides: The ULTIMATE guide

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If you need to add references, you can use the Superscript and Subscript options. Changing slide size: Google Slides defaults to the standard widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio. The standard 16:9 aspect ratio is widely used because it fits perfectly on most widescreen screens and projectors. Below Text is Align and indent.

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