407 – Nothing Boring About Your Photos

This week on WELSTech we tackle the topic of graphic design with a variety of online and mobile tools for creating professional imagery, infographics and slide shows to communicate a message. Martin tries to Sway viewers to a new way of presenting, and we hear from a WELSTech Hall-of-Fame member with a free eBook to share.

The discussion:

Graphic Design – Martin and Sallie help you take your images to the next level with a variety of easy and often-times free image editing tools in this 4th installment of the Imagine That summer series.

• Making Great Worship Graphics on the Cheap
• Challies Dot Com
• PicMonkey – Tutorial: Make a Photo Collage
• Canva
• Piktochart
• YouVersion Bible Mobile Image Inspiration
• Blurb from Lightroom
• Slide.ly
• SmileBox
• Animoto
• WELSTech Photo Challenge
  • August challenge: Stained Glass & Outdoors 
  • September challenge: School & Bible Study
  • Flickr album

Picks of the week:

• Take Your Social Media to the Next Level – Time of Grace on Instagram & Pinterest
• Sway – Video Tutorials

Community feedback:

• In His Sandals Kindle eBook – Free this week
• Samsung Invents a Screen on the Back of Trucks to Show the Road Ahead
• Ultradox Email Designer Google Docs Add-On
• Practical EdTech Handbook (PDF)
• Copyright Resources:
  • WELSTech Wiki
  • WELSTech Episode 329 – Are You Legal
  • NPH Copyright FAQ
• WELSTech Listserve Discussion: Door Control Systems

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 408 – Next week we wrap up the summer Imagine That series with a discussion of image storage and organization. Join us Tuesday, September 1 at 4 pm Central. welstechlive.wels.net

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