Video: How to modify an Easter or ANY image photo with Snagit
For an effective communication campaign it is helpful to have a coordinated image you can use throughout your communications. This short, and extremely easy video will show you how to go from a photo like this: To a graphic like this: You do need to have the Snagit program ($49, available at www.snagit.com) to do [...]
Clipart for World Religions, tools to help you be a modern-day Paul
There are many reasons why you might want to find clipart for religions other than Christianity, including to study and understand them or to do outreach. The Apostle Paul in Acts 17 carefully studied the pagan idols so that when he preached to the people he used what had learned about their religions as a [...]
Webinar: How to turn a full-color image into a black and white drawing
Full-color images are available from many sources on the web for all our holiday outreach and special event communications, but if your church wants to print lots of publications for outreach, you may want to do it more cost effectively using a black and spot color image. Cost aside, black and white images with spot [...]
Why it is incorrect to think that graphic images mean the same thing to everyone who sees them
Images should be used only if they add to the message expressed primarily in words. They are not sufficient in and of themselves to communicate much of anything. They may look nice, they may create an emotion, designers may congratulate each other on their brilliance when they share their creations, but if you want to [...]
How to download Paint.net, a Webinar On-Demand
Paint.net is a great FREE program for modifying the free images available online. Following the webinar that provided an overview of the free sources, a number of people had problems downloading www.paint.net. I went over the download too quickly and I apologize. I created the webinar here that goes step-by-step through the download process. I [...]
Free Clipart & Photo Websites, Webinar On-Demand
We all want free images to use in our church communications, but where can we find ones that we can use without guilt and without violating the Terms of Use for some of the sites? Though there are hundreds of sites that claim to be “free” out there on the web, most of them have [...]
How to modify free clipart–Photoshop results without Photoshop, Webinar On-Demand
Free images are a great start (click here for the webinar about free clipart and photos) but once you have the images, what do you do to make them your own and use them in your projects? You can modify images in Photoshop and other complex programs, but that’s an expensive and difficult way to [...]
Clipart, images, articles-if it’s on the web is it OK to use it?
Google can find anything you want—an image, a devotion, an article, a sermon. One click and you can view it; copy and paste and you capture it. But just because it’s that easy to do it, does that mean you should do it? If we want our digital lives to match the beliefs of our [...]
Video: Reivew of LogoSmartz, part 2
You can do so much more with LogoSmartz than simple create logos. One of the things I enjoy about it most is that you can use it to group images and words and make an image that resizes very easily. It does the same kind of thing that far more expesive and difficult programs, such [...]
Video: Review of LogoSmartz, part 1
This 5-minute video demonstrates how this inexpensive and very easy-to-use program enables you to create a logo. The idea demonstrates how to use one of their templates to make a logo for a coffee ministry. This program is not only quick and easy-to-use, but it is a lot of fun. You can get a free download [...]
