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How to Use GIFs as Cover Photos in Rise 360 (with Free GIFs!)

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LauraHawk-46cb4
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7 years ago

Adding a cover photo to a Rise 360 course is an easy way to make your course look beautiful, inviting, and customized. And you’re not limited to still photos! You can add GIF files to your Rise projects to make them really come to life.

That’s why we’re giving away a bundle of six GIFs for you to use in your Rise 360 courses. Grab the download, then check out this simple tutorial to see how easy it is to update your cover photo with one of these gorgeous GIFs: 

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  • TiffaniTodd's avatar
    TiffaniTodd
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Thanks for the freebies, they look lovely! In addition to the above requests, I'd love to see taxi/take-off of an aircraft, windsock or flag waving in the wind, weathervane turning, revolving door (harbingers/symbols of change).
  • JulieSullivan-9's avatar
    JulieSullivan-9
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Business focused, checklist/checkmark, keyboarding, financial (calculator/addition), etc...
    Thank you for sharing these!
  • MichaelDiFonzo's avatar
    MichaelDiFonzo
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Nice feature to draw the user in. Love the comment about debating the pronunciation of it being GIF or gif. Made me laugh.
  • Pradeepvijay's avatar
    Pradeepvijay
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Is it possible to play/pause the GIF image when the user clicked/mouse hover on the GIF image?
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      No not at this time. But if you make your own gifs you can build in a pause that the gif will hit during each time it cycles. This can be useful if you have something you really want to show and let the eyes rest on.
  • DannyHall's avatar
    DannyHall
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Nice - great way to highlight and draw the eye to a course.
  • CliveHands's avatar
    CliveHands
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    what is the Aspect Ratio used is the Rise title block for standard devices?
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      Hi Clive, We don't make recommendations on cover photo sizes since they scale and crop to fit each screen size and orientation, though you probably want to use images that are wider than they are tall. Adam discusses this a bit in his feature video, starting at the 2:37 mark: https://youtu.be/0wyNzjmldgI?t=2m37s

      Hope this helps!
      • CliveHands's avatar
        CliveHands
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Cool thanks - want to play around with creating our own title GIFs...
  • TanyaVictor's avatar
    TanyaVictor
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Would love to see a GIF of two people "cheersing" each other with glasses of craft beer. I work at a brewery. ;)
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      Hi Tanya,

      Julie above ^ had the same suggestion! I will definitely keep this one in mind!

      Thanks!
  • mkudrna's avatar
    mkudrna
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Thanks for the GIF-away!! So fun! These are great! Thank you for sharing.

    I would love to see a someone riding a bicycle, maybe cheers with some beers, typing on a computer, something safety related with PPE, and some sort of collaboration. Just a couple ideas for you :-)

    Thanks again!
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      Thanks for the ideas Julie! I will most definitely keep that in mind for more downloads in the future.