Effective Church Communications

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and a Biblical Perspective to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. Our tools constantly change; our task doesn’t; we can help.

Image editing excerpt from the video: Money and Time Saving Tips for Church Communications

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This video is excerpted from the longer one: Money and Time Saving Tips for Church Communications

I created it because I realized after finishing the longer video that the part I think if most useful is this part that shows how I modified the images. If I was looking at the program again, I'd want to just focus on this and so I chopped up the video to make it easier to view that way.

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Free Microsoft Clip Art and how to make the most of it

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The Microsoft website has some of the most incredible clipart available or use in your church communication projects and it's all FREE! In addition to the free clipart, it has one of the most useful and fun to use search engines that allows you to find similar clipart, either in style or subject matter.

Both of these features are demonstrated on the video that follows.Below the standard resolution video is an HD video for Effective Church Communication Members.

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Clipart, images, articles-if it’s on the web is it OK to use it?

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Copyright questions answered
You can find and copy any image on the web, but that does not mean you can use it. Copyright guidelines for what is right for church communicators follow.

 

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 analog lives, as believers and servants of Jesus, the answer is no. We need to be just as careful today that we are not using something that does not rightly belong to us, just as we did in junior high school when we were taught not to plagiarise material for school papers.

To help us do that, a review of what constitutes copyright, fair use, public domain and the newer Creative Commons designations is essential. Following this brief overview and some recommendations is a list of links to the U.S. government sites and other articles that explain these issues in more detail. Yes, this is work and a challenging area that we often do not want to be bothered with—but we work for the King of Kings and Lord of Lord and we need to do all our work as honestly and legally as we know how—no matter how hard it is.

This does not apply to any material you purchase: the images, clipart, articles you may have bought for a yearly or monthly fee.

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Graphics: lines, screens, clipart overview

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PDF of some Graphic Design Basics: lines, screens, clipart
PDF of some Graphic Design Basics: lines, screens, clipart

This PDF is the chapter from my first book on desktop publishing that gives you some ideas on how you can use the most basic elements of graphic design to help tell your story.

You may never have thought about how a line can actually tell a story, but it can and one of the sections here shows you how. Screens and reverses are graphic design tools that look great in high end printing, but in lower resolution materials you print in the church office they don't always come out looking as good as you want—this chapter will help you understand why.

It also has some tips on matching the style of your clip art to the style of the type in your communication piece.

Though we can do so much with some of the high-quality images we download from the web, you'll use them most effectively if you understand some of the basics taught in this PDF.

To download it, click here or on the image.

note: this PDF is from Yvon Prehn's archives and is the only format of this article available presently. Not the greatest quality to be sure, but shared with the belief that the content is useful.