An Early Christmas Present From TipGuy.

In the spirit of the holiday gift giving season I thought it appropriate to provide you with a free early holiday gift. As I develop e-Learning I tend to amass (is that the right word?) a collection of images, some purchased, but some I created myself in either PowerPoint or PhotoShop. I can't share the purchased one's due to obvious copyright restrictions, however I can share some of my own creations.



Just a sample, there's more on the attachment.



Just click the link below to download a PowerPoint where I have attached several images for your e-Learning usage pleasure. Some are pretty elementary and some more complex, but perhaps you can find something you can use and save yourself a little development time.

DOWNLOAD THE IMAGES POWERPOINT.

In addition to the images, following are some additional resources I sometimes use in my development efforts, so perhaps you might find a use for these too. If you're at all curious about the various tools I use to develop e-Learning you can check out this previous post listing my arsenal of tools.

• Don't have PhotoShop or the know-how to create your own images, check out this Glassy Button Wizard, which makes it a snap to create your own custom glassy buttons.

• Need a Caricature Headshot, check out this interesting little head maker. I don't remember how or when I stumbled across this one, but I've used it a few times when I needed the same character with several different expressions. As an FYI I usually open my final product in PhotoShop and add a little color.

• You might already be aware of ffiles.com as a Flash Resource Site, but it's a great site loaded with a ton of free user-contributed Flash files. I love this site and use it quite frequently to not only snag great Flash menus and such, but also sometimes as a source to get inspiration and ideas. You'll need to have Flash if you plan on editing any of the files.

• If you're not familiar with iStockPhoto, you should be. Not only does it contain a ton of great stock images, but it surprisingly has some pretty cool Flash stuff available too. From a Flash perspective I've primarily used the menus and image gallery stuff. You will need to have Flash if you plan on editing anything. The catch here is that it's not free, you purchase credits and then use these credits to buy stuff. The images and Flash stuff is somewhat fairly priced and if your company will pay for it then I definitely recommend looking into it.

Enjoy the goodies and a very happy holiday season to everybody!