Making Effective Screenshots: Saving Time, Increasing Impact
Training
Provided by Online Training Directory
This class addresses beginning technical writers, managers looking to improve quality and efficiency, and all those who deal with screenshots. We will show you how to make screenshots, increase their impact, place them in manuals and online documents, and choose the appropriate tool.
Making Efficient Screenshots: Saving Time, Increasing Impact Screenshots are a powerful way to convey information quickly. We use screenshots to develop training sequences, illustrate documentation, develop GUI prototypes, support customers, and illustrate marketing brochures. But how can we take these screenshots efficiently, capturing what users need, modifying the images consistently, storing them for easy access, and placing them on our pages effectively? As a beginning communication professional you learn a lot about important topics such as writing procedures, organizing content, and editing. But what about screenshots? How can you make sure you obtain good color quality? How do you balance file size against quality? How can you plan capture sessions to avoid doing a lot of rework later? How can you edit screenshots and place them in your manual or help pages? This presentation gives you practical techniques, and strategies to improve your screen captures.
You will learn how to: Plan your capture sessions. Take effective screenshots. Edit screenshots to illustrate procedures. Optimize your capture environment. Place screenshots in your manual or help pages. Pick an efficient capture tool. Frequently Asked Questions How long will it take me to complete the course? Depending on the amount of time you devote to this class, it can be completed very quickly. Count 1 day per module. There are 6 modules to work your way through. Depending on your pace, you can finish the class in 1 week, or in 6 weeks if you choose to do 1 module per week. How is the program administered? The entire program is delivered through our MyGATO Learning Management System (Get Anytime Training Online), available to you 24/7 from your own individual student login page that is provided when you sign up for the course.
You can download the resources that are provided as part of the program, perform the practical exercises, and take quizzes directly from the Website. Are there any required books for the course? No! What are the advantages of taking this course online? Always accessible?on demand?single login?easy to manage?work at your own pace?these are just a few of the many advantages.
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Making Effective Screenshots: Saving Time, Increasing Impact
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to...
Assessment
Evaluation of your performance will be based on...
The class is split up in 6 modules:
Contact Hours: 15
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to...
- Take screenshots.
- Adapt the captures to the target public.
- Choose colordepth and file format according to your purpose.
- Edit your screenshot so as to highlight important information, and include orientation cues.
- Choose a documentation strategy.
- Place captures in manuals and online documentation in a consistent and effective way.
- Optimize your capture environment.
- Pick the tool that suits your purpose.
Assessment
Evaluation of your performance will be based on...
- Individual module quizzes
The class is split up in 6 modules:
- Reviewing the purpose of screenshots: we identify the link between project phase, target public, and screen capture.
- Taking effective screenshots: we investigate the graphical nature of a screenshot from a technical point of view (pixels, vector objects, sizing, colordepth, file format).
- Editing screenshots to illustrate procedures: we look at screenshots from an editor''s point of view. We investigate the illustration strategy, and the way important information is brought to the reader''s attention.
- Optimizing your capture environment: we have a closer look at the operating system, the monitor display features and the desktop appearance, and how these features influence our screen captures.
- Placing screenshots in your manual and help pages: we recall principles and guidelines to consider when placing screen captures in your manual and help pages.
- Picking an efficient capture tool: we investigate a series of available tools (SnagIt8, HyperSnap 6, FullShot 9, TNT Screen Capture 2.1, Corel Paint Shop Pro 9).
Contact Hours: 15
About The Training Provider: Online Training Directory
Online Training Directory - Workforce and Continuing Ed online courses are offered at basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Going beyond basic training provides a deeper and more educationally rewarding learning experience, especially for students who wish to advance careers or initiate new ones. For the general lifelong learner we continue to offer "fun to learn" single, stand-alone courses.
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