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A tutorial on skip&sketch might be handy?

We could demo S&S's key features, and then show how to make the tutorial including scripting eg code, info tags.

We do not have to show every feature in our tutorial - the plan here is to show HOW to do it.

A polished tutorial coukd come later (or have one pre-prepared?).

@Kari, I know you use special tools to mark your screen images but I think we could show how to do that quickly with S&S.

It makes it quite easy as you can quickly open the snipped sketch in Paint or Paint3D and add arrows, text etc. very easily.

One neat thing is you can have multiple sketches open, so easy to re-mark an image without having to backtrack.

cereberus said:

A tutorial on skip&sketch might be handy?

We could demo S&S's key features, and then show how to make the tutorial including scripting eg code, info tags.

We do not have to show every feature in our tutorial - the plan here is to show HOW to do it.

A polished tutorial coukd come later (or have one pre-prepared?).

@Kari, I know you use special tools to mark your screen images but I think we could show how to do that quickly with S&S.

It makes it quite easy as you can quickly open the snipped sketch in Paint or Paint3D and add arrows, text etc. very easily.

One neat thing is you can have multiple sketches open, so easy to re-mark an image without having to backtrack.

Not sure, but I think Kari uses Screenpresso for tutorials. I'd love to learn how to use that for tutorials too.

As Wynona mentioned, I use Screenpresso exclusively, but S&S is so easy that is easy to include to a tutorial session as one method to make and annotate screenshots.

However, even the free version of Screenpresso has so much more than S&S that it is the tool I recommend. Only con in free version is that once you save a screenshot with annotations, highlights, arrows and so on, you can no longer change, edit or remove them. You can add new annotations to it but those already saved cannot be modified.

An easy workaround for this is to save your annotated screenshots as JPG or PNG files on PC using Save As in Screenpresso toolbar, then when closing the screenshot editor select No when prompted to save it. This way you always have the original, not annotated screenshot available in editor, and annotated versions of it saved as image files on your PC.



Screenpresso: The Ultimate Screen Capture Tool for Windows

cereberus said:

Please let's not forget the focus is about how to make a tutorial, not which is the best markup tool.

Getting screenshots right is important if you want to make a good tutorial.

Having said that, I uploaded just now a PDF to OffTopic Chat channel in TenForums team:



That is a PDF print from a tutorial I made four years ago for Seven Forums. As it is in closed VIP subforum, only Seven Forums VIP members can see it: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...tutorials.html



That tutorial is still for the most valid for Ten Forums (apart of video embedding, which is different on Ten Forums). You can see the PDF version on Ten Forums team. Full BBCode list at Seven Forums: Windows 7 Help Forums - BB Code List

Kari

Geeks, I have had a lot to do, and will be busy until early next week. First TF Live webcast using Teams will be on Saturday, October 20th.

The topic will be the one once cancelled, how to make tutorials.

Kari

@Kari getting close, what time?

Dude said:

@Kari getting close, what time?

Sorry for a late invitation, due health and other real life issues I was unsure if it would be possible this weekend. Anyway, as this first open webcast using Teams is mostly to test that everything works, I thought that also a late invitation will do. Hopefully at least a few of you can join.

Invitation is here: TF Live Webcast - How to make a tutorial October20th, 2018 - Windows 10 Forums

Kari