#Change colors in flysketch series

Because it’s easy for me to get carried away when talking about something that matters to me, I find it very helpful to work out in advance everything that I am going to do in the screencast, in the order and position on the screen that I intend to do it. For whiteboard screencasting, which is more free-form than lecture capture using Keynote or PowerPoint, the scripting process has to be a little more rigorous. You first have to engage in basic planning, which involves defining a tight and coherent scope for your screencast and writing out a script. The basic principles of whiteboard screencasts are the same as for other screencasts. This is a really powerful use of screencasts - students often want more examples than there is time for in a class meeting, and whiteboard screencasts give me a way to give students as many examples as they can dream up. I use them sometimes for presenting hand calculations for students to watch and work through before class, and sometimes (probably more frequently) I use them to create additional examples for things I’ve covered in class. I do whiteboard screencasts fairly often. In the unlikely event you haven’t seen a Khan Academy video before, here’s one: Of course the most well-known examples of “whiteboard” screencasts are the videos at Khan Academy. It’s intended to mimic the live presentation of content on a whiteboard, hence my name for it.

This is a screencast where I am demoing some sort of concept or calculation by writing things down, rather than clicking through a Keynote presentation or typing something on the screen.

#Change colors in flysketch series

Find out about the various options on the compositing modes page.In this post, the fifth in a series of posts on how I make screencasts, I’m going to focus on what I call the “whiteboard” screencast. (This option is available for 10.4+ only). The Compositing Mode Palette is used to alter the way the graphic is drawn on the canvas. Use the widgets to vary the size of the shadow radius, and the offset of the shadow from the graphic. The Shadow Palette is used to apply a drop shadow to a selected graphic. Left, right, top, bottom, vertical and horizontal center align options are available. The Align / Position Palette is used to align selected graphics, or to move a single graphic to the front or back of the canvas. In addition, if you have a line graphic selected, you can choose to have the lines capped with various shapes, and alter the sizes of those shapes. The Stroke / Line Arrow Palette allows you to change the stroke value for a selected graphic. The Info Palette displays coordinate and size information about the selected graphic. The same works for stroke values when the stroke color well is on top. Pressing it again will give the graphic back it's fill value. When the fill color well is on top, pressing the slashed button will set the selected graphic to have no fill. The button with the slash is used to remove the selected graphics' stroke or fill value. Use the button with the arrows on either end to swap the fill and stroke colors.

The stroked color well is used to control the stroke color of the selected graphic. The filled in color well is used to control the fill color of the selected graphic. The Color Palette can is used to change the fill and stroke colors of the selected graphic.

Using these palettes, you can perform various operations on your selected graphics, like apply drop shadows, align graphics, change color and compositing modes, and more. This one will eventually be retired.įlySketch 1.5 adds a new feature- side palettes. Make sure to check out the new wiki located at.