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Our Favorite Media Assets For Your Artsy Courses

Post published:September 5, 2021
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These are our favorite resources to find and use media assets within your art courses. These are things like icons, stock images, video clips, music, and more.

Stock Photos

Unsplash.com – My #1 place for high-quality stock photos that I can use on my blog, slides, ebooks, and more. These images can be used with attribution (the right thing to do) or without attribution. Images are usually in very high resolution and license rights allow cropping, modifying, and use on websites, books, and courses.

Icons

IconFinder.com is a great way to find free or affordable fonts, like $2.50 for some. It has a great search feature where you can look for free/premium, solid, outline, cartoon, flat, etc. Let us download in various formats such as PNG, ico, GIF, AI, SVG.

Fonts

1001Fonts.com – Large collection of free and for commercial use fonts at a great price. Has great filters for different font attributes like narrow, wide, decorative, thin, etc. Also, has a great preview system where you can type letters, and choose a font, color, and size.

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Please double-check with your legal team about the content licenses provided by these sites and your exact usage.

FAQs on Our Favorite Media Assets

Media assets refer to the visual, audio, and interactive elements used to enhance the learning experience. These include videos, images, infographics, audio clips, animations, and downloadable materials like PDFs or slides.

Media assets help make the content more engaging and easier to understand. They can simplify complex topics, maintain learner interest, and cater to different learning styles.

Some of these tools include Canva, that’s an app for images, presentations and infographics. Adobe A more advanced tool for creating custom illustrations and graphics. You can also try Piktochart and Visme for a variety of visual content from infographics and data visualizations to charts.

No, you don’t necessarily need graphic design skills to create visual assets. You can get free stock photos from websites like Unsplash. Pixabay and Pexels. You can also use Canva and Piktochart to create free templates for your media assets.

Use visuals to complement and highlight key points, avoid clutter, and ensure that graphics are clear and relevant to the content. Visuals should enhance understanding, not distract from the material.

Yes, stock photos from platforms like Shutterstock and Adobe Stock can be used, provided you have the appropriate license.