Demand attention and engage your learners with unique graphics in your rapid e-Learning content. Aesthetically appealing rapid e-Learning content draws learners in and promotes interactivity. This week, we have the top 5 free graphic design tools to help you create impressive Snap! by Lectora e-Learning content.
Rather than using clip-art or mundane images, you can create original graphics and put them right in your Snap! by Lectora courses and presentations for a fresh look in your PowerPoint to Flash content. These free, easy-to-use tools will have you packing a creative punch to your rapid e-Learning courses and PowerPoint Presentations in no time!
Inkscape – This vector image editing program creates graphics that can be resized or scaled without loosing quality or becoming pixelated. You have the potential to create very realistic looking images by drawing things from scratch or importing existing image files. Everything you draw is in vector using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format, so file size is pretty small.
Gimp – Although we previously covered this in our free photo-editing Friday Finds, it’s worth another mention as a great, free graphic design software. You can work with layers, keep track of your history, import and export your content. Similar to Photoshop, this photo and bitmap image editor enables you to create full featured and very professional results.
Scribus – This desktop publishing tool is ideal for print design materials and allows great manipulation over the text. Scribus supports professional publishing features such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
Pencil – Create traditional hand-drawn 2D animations (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics in this drawing software. This very simple program, very similar to Microsoft® Paint, allows you to add animation, layers (vector graphic and bitmap layers), frames and export content in multiple formats.
Google SketchUp – Easily draw 3D sketches quickly, great for architecture and 3D shapes. You can also upload a picture and create a custom model off of your picture.
A big rapid e-Learning high five to this week’s Friday Fan, @mamaier262 (Michael Maier, e-Learning manager) who Tweets “Has Lectora created a tool that will put the smackdown on Articulate? For $99 its worth a try http://ow.ly/6wNoA #elearning.”
The incredibly low $99 Snap! by Lectora is definitely worth every penny! If you haven’t already, download your free 30-day trial and see for yourself!
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