As well as tons of cool new images (examples below), Jeff and his Media Team have added awesome new tools that make your image editing easier, more fun and (best of all) more effective! Scroll down for more…

Focus the Focus!

A brilliant new series of images Jeff developed and just recently uploaded make it easy to focus a student’s attention on a specific part of an image. When you search for media, use keyword “focus” and you’ll see a series of circle and square outlines of various colors on clear backgrounds in the search return.

When you are creating, you can drag a focus shape onto any image to outline a specific part of the picture where you want the student to focus. Use them to spotlight a specific portion of a cluttered image, to highlight areas for comparison, or to group objects in the image (awesome for math visuals!). To use them:

• drag your image into the creation tile

• click on the image and click Edit in the gray box that appears above to enter Image Edit mode

• type the keyword “focus” into the search box at the top of the screen

• drag in the colored circle or square of your choice

• drag it and use the handles to position it to spotlight the desired area of the image

What Was He Thinking?

Jeff has also added a new group thought and speech bubbles that make it easy to give your creations POV. If you search for “thought bubble” you’ll find all the easy-to-use thought and speech callouts to choose from. Add them to your image just as described above. While you are still in Image Edit mode, you can add text to the bubbles by clicking on the little A square (one of the the controls lining the right side of the Image Edit screen). Then click the image where you want the text and drag open a text box.

From Soup to Nuts

Lots of cool new cooking series have been added—images that walk through the entire process of scrambling eggs, making pancakes and many other common recipes. A full series of pool and locker-room images are recent additions, as well as everything from more body part cutouts to bugs (I’m still scratching phantom bites from looking at the mosquito pics). Look for lots of new cutouts too (images with the background removed and placed on a transparent backgrounds for layering).

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Many thanks to Jeff Richards, MTT Media Meister, for supplying the visuals (today and everyday!).

Asset Wrangler Jeff and his art cats have continued to add new media to the VizZle image database all summer long. Scroll down for a small sample of last week’s additions.

Media Master Jeff and his team have continued to add new photos and line drawings to the VizZle image database. But even more impressive are the ongoing grooming and improvements that Jeff’s team focuses on.

In Jeff’s latest update, he notes:

-We have been taking the time to remove backgrounds from images whose subject might have blended into the background or backgrounds that might have otherwise been too distracting

-We have improved images that weren’t centered or might have been too small within the image frame by re-cropping them

-We have been improving our keywording, for instance by adding scientific names (to plants and animals)

-As we came across images in the database that could be used in other less traditional ways, we added keywords, so they could be found in Search

-We have been improving the communication value of select images by re-coloring or redrawing them based on autism teacher suggestions

-Finally, we monitor the most popular image searches and have added images specifically to expand choices for images that have been highly requested

A Small Sample of Last Month’s Additions:

Asset Wrangler Jeff and his art cats have continued to add new media to the VizZle image database all summer long. Scroll down for a small sample of last week’s additions.

Media Master Jeff and his team have continued to add new photos and line drawings to the VizZle image database. But even more impressive are the ongoing grooming and improvements that Jeff’s team focuses on.

In Jeff’s latest update, he notes:

-We have been taking the time to remove backgrounds from images whose subject might have blended into the background or backgrounds that might have otherwise been too distracting

-We have improved images that weren’t centered or might have been too small within the image frame by re-cropping them

-We have been improving our keywording, for instance by adding scientific names (to plants and animals)

-As we came across images in the database that could be used in other less traditional ways, we added keywords, so they could be found in Search

-We have been improving the communication value of select images by re-coloring or redrawing them based on autism teacher suggestions

-Finally, we monitor the most popular image searches and have added images specifically to expand choices for images that have been highly requested

A Small Sample of Last Month’s Additions: