Transcripts
1. Intro: One of the most useful things in content creation
is infographics. If you're wondering
what an infographic is, it's something like
this or this or this. You'll notice what
it's basically doing is it's showing you a lot of information in a short amount
of time using visuals. It might look a little
bit cartoony sometimes, and also it could include
actual photographs. One of its most common
purposes would be in something like a blog post to quickly summarize all the information in the blog in a very
visual format. That's someone can just look for 15 seconds or so and to
see the basic information. And then they can read the blog for more in-depth knowledge. Vis-a-vis is a site
that lets you create beautiful infographics
without needing to be good at design at all. Someone who has no
history in graphic design can easily pick
this up and use it. Now that we've got all
that out of the way, let's get onto the lesson.
2. Pros, cons and payment plans: Now there are four payment
plans with MSM me. The basic one which is free, personal, which is the
cheapest of the paid plans. And if you're a freelancer or an individual using
it professionally, this should do business which is very suitable
for an entire department. Enterprise, which is an
entire large company. You can pay either
monthly or annually. With annual being
cheaper in the long run. But if you just need something temporarily, monthly is good. Now the perks of the more
expensive claims are more file space as well as
different file formats, as well as a lot of other
bells and whistles, like being able to
download as a video, some privacy controls, and even a possible
custom sub-domain. Now I'm not gonna choose any
one of these on you as each of these planes is, right for different people. Now the pros of asthma, you can start off with the
free plan and you've got the versatility of choosing
how much you want to pay, for, what level of service. And the fact that it's
free and easy to use. And it can be used for more
than just infographics. For example, you can make
it to use presentations, documents, printables, charts and graphs,
social media graphics. There's all sorts of other
things it can be used for, although infographics are
probably the most common. Now some cons are it is, it is a little bit more expensive than a lot
of its competitors. The free version really doesn't give you very much,
I'll be honest. There's a lot of things
like printing out your own material that you
really can't even use. Now it does come with
a lot of templates, which is also very good. That's also a pro, but if you stick to the
templates too much, it can look a little bit basic. Now onto learning how
to actually use it.
3. Demo and example: Alright, so from Google you type in create presentations, infographics, login. Now I'm already logged in. If you are not, you'll
have to create an account, but it's pretty easy. It's like creating an account and pretty much anything else. Go to Create New Project. And since we're
discussing infographics, Let's go with that. Infographics there. Again, there's
some in templates, some of which do
require premium, which is the paid stuff. But since we're just discussing the basics,
Let's start fresh. Get started. Now let's bring the
first block up. Blocks don't interact
with each other. So let's basically
show you what I mean. Let's use this plus sign here. Create empty block. Now let's select the first one. You can tell the first
one is highlighted, is selected because
it's highlighted. Let's create a background in it. Atoms. Let's use this and
then increase the opacity you should be able to see
it's got some stuff. Now let's just go to gradients. You can see now dark
blue, it's got a purple. One. Can also have photos. Let's go to their photo library. You can upload your own photos, but let's just stick
with the basics for now. Let's just show this
guy on his computer. Then I'll even show you a
few more things work here. Let's go with this. Once again, this is divided
between two different blocks. That's why it seems a
little bit cut off. Again. This one we got the background by
clicking this part, then clicking background
with this one. We just kind of clicked
in the middle of nowhere and went to
photos down here. This, let's make
this one smaller. Go two frames of that. Now we can have it just
shaped as an oval. You can do that with
basically any shape. Now let's just create
our header here. Examples, statistics. Again, we can do all
kinds of alignments. Let's write a line it, let's increase the font. You can either do it like that. Again, we brought our
whole block down, so let's make it smaller again. Instead of a drop-down, what's highlighted like that? 66, adjust the color to white so it stands out
against the Blackmore. That again. Now you double-click the
background and you can raise the photo there. I'd say that looks pretty good. Now let's actually get our first block of
statistics here. Let's use a gradient
background for this. Let's just use blue. Let's go to graphics,
lines and shapes. And you can see here
there is change. We can use custom lines. Once again, just the thickness,
the endpoints, cetera. But for now let's
actually go to getting some data, charts and graphs. Let's look at this
bar graph here. Again, it shows Europe, America, and Africa having statistics
that really aren't shown. Let's just call this thing one, thing, two, things three. Now you can adjust. What all of these are? You can adjust this 2015 to 25. You can you can see here
that's got the grayish color. You can switch it
to, let's say green. This one is all. This one's just really
similar to the background, so let's make it red. And now you can adjust
the settings of the draft of the graph. You can give it the title
of just sampled bar graph. You can give it a
subtitle if you want. Gonna put it there
and then erase it just to tell you more
than how to do it. Access, you can show
or not show the axis. So there you can see 2520101550. Get rid of that. And you just
see comparative bars. Here. You can adjust the
sum of the fonts, the x-axis, so you can see
that they're increasing. Also, if you wanted
to just adjust for just points, you can adjust the maximum
and minimum values. You can adjust
maximum value to 30. You can also adjust the
minimum value if you want to. Once again, this can be used to bend a lot of statistics
in your infographic. You can make the
minimum value ten or 0. Let's just use zeros so
that this chart remains. Without any strange
manipulation. Legend. You can even turn it off so you can't really tell
what to save space. I would not recommend that, but there's probably
some point where it could you can adjust
where the legend is. The side that even
looks pretty good. Right, left, top, bottom. Let's just put it
to the left for now because that
looks pretty nice. Again, you can align it values. You can show the
values on the chart. Which again, you can do that
instead of taking away, instead of having an axis. And let's have them
in black text. Now let's just what
the left shows. That's another way of
having it look really. You can rotate stuff. You can rotate. You see the 252015, the actual numbers
themselves are rotating. You're going to have them
be at the top of the graph. The inside the left. Let's put them at
the top for now. You control them as percentages. That's something that's more
valuable than a pie chart. Not a bar graph,
but you can see it. You can do this too. You can see there's no lines
in the background here. Now you can see the lines. Again, you can stack it, That's more so if you want to have something that
shows proportions, you can have rounded
or squared edges. As you can see there, squared
edges, rounded edges. A lot of this just
comes down to what you personally would like
to see more of them. That's how you let's add
in another section here. Let's give this one
another photo background. So go to photos. Photo library. Must have just that. Go to background photo library. There we go. Now we can show more of a pie chart. Chart data. Again, you can outright get rid of certain stuff, just delete, delete, or
you can add stuff in. You can do this a whole bunch. You can add in a
fourth statistic here. Fourth statistic.
Let's put that at ten. You can see it
defaults to orange. Now let's delete those. Set both these values to 50. Keep those colors the same. But let's adjust some
other things here. Let's adjust the
color of the legend. Call this one
marriage statistics. You can click that to
adjust the settings. Let's make it white so
that you can see it more easily against this. So that's a very
simple chart there. Then let's add in this 50% short body their marriages and divorce. All right, so this is just an extremely basic infographic. You'll probably want
something here. So instead of clicking
background here, Let's just add in a photo. Now you can also type
in what you want. Let's just have a car. Let's see here. I'm I did I just have the
background selected there. Yes, I had accidentally selected background so careful of that. Nothing to be ashamed of, but it is something that as
you can see, slows you down. Frames. Let's have this
one be a triangle. Frames. Triangle apply. As you can see, that one doesn't
exactly look the nicest. So let's put that to go back. This one looked like
a diamond, maybe. There we go, That looks
really good, right there. Again, you can adjust the
size even after all that. Can even adding a filter. Color overlay make it
seem a little bit. Even filter it to have
some green or yellow. Adjust the opacity
to 100% opacity, you'll just see yellow. There you go. That is
the absolute basics. Now to actually download
it, click download image. Jpeg is the only one
available for free. Once it's paid, you can get PNGs which are slightly better. Again, PDFs are also premium
but can download it. Generating. There we go. When it's downloaded. You can also share it. Copy. Then if he give the link, you can share it now. Which can be used in ways
that look pretty cool. Can use it in an
online presentation. If you're in a
meeting or something, you can do it over Zoom or Microsoft Teams or whatever
it is that you're using. Those are the absolute
basics of using Disney. Once again, you can
play with it a lot, find out some more
advanced stuff, but this is the absolute basics.
4. Class Project: Alright, so obviously
the infographics that people generally produce are more detailed
than the ones I made, but this is just
something I made to show you that this can
be done pretty simply. Now, for our class
project, class project, you will create a dummy account if you don't already have one, and then you will create an
infographic of your own. It can be used to show any information real or
fictional about anything. Just make sure it's
something that's appropriate by
Skillshare's guidelines. All right. Thank
you. I look forward to seeing some infographics.
Chris Viola, Writer and Marketing professional
