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Get Started Using Lightboard Overlays

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Use this presentation as a starting point for creating your graphic overlay to use with the lightboard.

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See this video for more examples: https://youtu.be/R2Xies5iq30

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Black areas of the screen will be transparent.

The brightest areas will be the most opaque.

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Black areas of the screen will be transparent. The brightest areas will be the most opaque.

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Any bright area will be overlayed on top of your video.

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Pixel values in the overlay are added to those of your video. The resulting effect is a semi-transparent overlay, allowing you to still be seen through the overlay image.

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This allows you to inhabit your overlay and seem to be a part of it, rather than simply annotating it from the side.

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Animations can also be included as .GIF files. You can also use .MP4 files if working in PowerPoint or Keynote. Looping animations of a process or cycle are particularly effective.

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The first and last slides should be pure black to serve as areas for an

introduction and concluding remarks.

Be sure and maintain pure black in your slides. If necessary, invert image colors in an editing program to maintain a black background. This cannot be done natively in PowerPoint. Or use images with built-in transparency, such as .PNG files

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