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Digital Skills

Suggestions to include relevant classroom tools, please email glover@hope.edu.

Creating in Canva

To export an image or send to print: select the Share button on the top right of the screen

• For digital images or screens, select Download, under File type, select PNG 
• To print select Download, under File type, select PDF Print (for color accuracy, under Color Profile, Pro account users should select CMYK)
  • If you need crop marks and bleed:
    1. Select File at the menu bar, select Settings, select Show print bleed.
    2. Make sure your design edges expand to the outside of the page to the guided bleed frame.
    3. When downloading, select the box to include Crop marks and bleed
• Templates to help you get started:
  • | Horizontal
  • | Vertical

Research Poster Creation

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More information can be found on the Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity website

If you would like to meet and have a consultation with staff, please schedule an appointment or stop in for a quick visit.

Zotero | Installation Process

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Photo and Vector Editing

Convert hand-drawn sketches, photos or illustrations into vectors for scalable designs using Adobe Illustrator. These simplified images can be used for presentations and reports, including vinyl or iron-on cuts with the Cricut Maker.

Image Trace converts raster images (JPEG, PNG, PSD, etc.) into vector artwork. You can use this feature to trace and convert existing images, like pencil sketches, into vectors. Choose from various tracing presets for quick, desired results.

Open or place a raster image in your Illustrator document.

With the placed image selected, do one of the following:

1. Choose Object > Image Trace > Make to trace with default parameters.
   
   
2. Click the Image Trace button in the Control or Properties panel, or select a preset from the Tracing Presets button. 
   
   Choose Window > Image Trace or switch to the Tracing workspace to open the Image Trace panel. Then, you can either choose a default preset from the drop-down menu or specify the tracing options.
   
   
3. Adjust the tracing results in the Image Trace panel (Window > Image Trace).
   
   
4. To convert the tracing object to paths and to manually edit the vector artwork, choose Object > Image Trace > Expand.

Cricut & Heat Press

Find a staff member on CONSULT WITH STAFF  to schedule one-on-one training.

Short Video Tutorials:

     

Tips for Creating a BookletÌý

For a professional looking booklet 16 sheets or less, we suggest saddlestitch binding. We have a long arm stapler and a commercial style saddlestitch stapler to help with binding. 

1. Whichever software you choose to use to create your booklet, center your page numbers to avoid the hassle of arranging numbers according to left or right side page.
2. Set inner margin to at least 1/4" in the booklet design to leave space for binding, you will need more space if using comb or spiral binding.
3. Avoid designing pages with color or images bleeding to the edge of the paper, our campus printers can not print to the edge, there will always be a 1/4 inch margin around the edge of the paper.  Include a 1/4" safety margin on all sides for text
4. Create two files for your booklet: 1) a cover file with 4 pages, and 2) an interior page file. It is important to provide the interior pages in chronological order. 

• Page Count
  The interior booklet page count must be divisible by 4. When printed, each folded sheet of paper creates four pages, double sided.  Our suggestion: create one file for the cover pages only (4 pages), giving you blank pages for the inside front and inside and outside back cover page. Laminate for a nice finishing touch. Create a separate file for the inside booklet pages, making sure the page count is divisible by 4.
• Arranging Pages
  Create the booklet pages in the order they'll be read. The printer will create the booklet layout in the proper order.  
• Paper Size
  The paper size for the booklet should be twice the size of the page. For example, an 8.5 x 11 booklet will print on 17 x 11 paper. We can not print larger than tabloid sized paper.
• Printer Options
  Save the booklet as a PDF. When sending the booklet to print, select print option Booklet, the printer will automatcially arrange pages in proper order, select print double sided, depending on layout of the pages you may need to printer long edge or short edge.

Screen Recording & Closed Captioning

We provide access to Apple computers in our space which give you a few options for screen recording and closed captioning.

• Screen recording on a Mac
  • Shortcut: Command + Shift + 5, you can edit your video in iMovie or Adobe Premiere
• Camtasia software is available for creating tutorials and screen recording. Editing capabilities within the software. Quick and easy to follow tutorials are availble .
• Adobe Premiere has an auto-generate option for closed captioning, please review text to edit the script.

Statistics / Data Analysis

Youtube Video Tutorials:
More tutorials to come soon, if you have special requests, please email glover@hope.edu

• SPSS
• NIVO
• Tableau