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Free Holiday Game: Reindeer’s Revenge

Dec 08, 2011 No Comments by

Happy Holidays from the eLearning Brothers team! Do you need a break from all the Holiday shopping, parties, decorating, treat making, caroling, snacking, and tree trimming? We have just the break you need. Click the link below to play Reindeer’s Revenge…just make sure the boss doesn’t catch you playing! Our Scores and Favorite Characters: Brother Shawn: [...]

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Free Flash eLearning Interaction Template

Nov 28, 2011 1 Comment by

Once again, we are sharing another eLearning template for FREE! This is one of our Flash Interaction templates. You’ll need to own a copy of Adobe Flash to open this one. You’ll notice that we are giving you both the actionscript 2 and 3 files. Hope you enjoy! Click the link below to go to [...]

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Free People Cutout Images

Nov 14, 2011 1 Comment by

We thought it would be nice to share a few of our People Cutouts… for FREE! Go ahead and click the link below to go to our eLearning Templates site to download the images. Free Cutout People Images   Recent Cutout People Image Bundles (for purchase):                

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Create Visual Interest with Masks in Photoshop

Sep 19, 2011 No Comments

Today I’ll show you some fun masking techniques using Adobe Photoshop. I’ll show you how to create some visual interest and depth to a design by overlapping and masking elements.    

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Creating a Sticker Effect in Photoshop

Sep 14, 2011 No Comments

Have you ever seen those fun graphics that look like stickers. It’s a very simple technique to duplicate. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a sticker effect with our cutout people images.

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Flash Animation Bounce Effect

Sep 01, 2011 No Comments

Today I’ll show you a how to add a little more “visual interest” to an Flash animating object. I call it the bounce effect. It’s a very simple technique but can really be awesome. I’ve recorded a screencast to show you how to do it. Here is a quick demo I created showing this “bounce” effect: [...]

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eLearning Surf Wax

Aug 10, 2011 No Comments

I’ve recently been trying to learn how to surf. I’m such a computer nerd… the first place I look is YouTube. I watched nearly every video I could find. I bought my first board last Saturday and hit my first waves Monday. Not to brag, but I think I did better than I thought I [...]

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Customized eLearning Game

Jul 14, 2011 No Comments

Today I thought I’d share with you an example of how our eLearning Game Templates can be customized in Adobe Flash. I took only about 10 minutes to come up with new look for the Marathon game. I just wanted to show you that all of the elements in these game templates can easily be [...]

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Steel Texture Flash Templates

Jul 13, 2011 No Comments

The other day I posted a blog about designing a custom steel texture background and adding it to a PowerPoint template. It turned out so nice, I thought that I’d make some matching Flash Activities and Flash Games. Click each sample below for a demo. Here is a tutorial on how to import a custom graphic background into [...]

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How to Design a Glossy Button

Jul 13, 2011 2 Comments

Today I’d like to show you one of my favorite ways to design buttons. The end result is a nice and simple glossy button. This technique is very easy and even though I’m demonstrating it in Adobe Photoshop, you can follow the same steps in other applications as well. Hope you enjoy!

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Door Hanger Inspiration: Steel Texture Background

Jul 12, 2011 No Comments

I am often asked where I get inspiration for design. Well, I always answer, everywhere! Sometimes it is in nature, other times it is from a TV commercial, and times like today it is from a door hanger delivered in the mail box. I received this door hanger in my mail box (not sure why [...]

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Design Inspiration

Jul 12, 2011 3 Comments

Have you ever created a new file in Photoshop, Flash, or any other application, and found yourself just staring at the blank canvas not knowing where to begin? Sometimes the blank canvas can be a little intimidating. I personally love the thought of starting a new file and design. I thrive off the opportunity to [...]

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Free Independence Day Background

Jul 08, 2011 No Comments

This week we celebrated America’s Independence day. In the spirit of celebrating, I thought I’d make and share a free eLearning background. Hope you enjoy… Each image is 720×540 and ready to be imported right into Articulate, powerpoint, iSpring, Snap, or many other rapid eLearning tools. Click here to download the files. (I’ve included 2 [...]

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