I regularly make flashcards for my client. The one I see today and I bring my laptop and have flashcards in a PowerPoint presentation.
I just get a long list, like of age-appropriate vocabulary words, and find pertinent images, but for younger teleclients I like to find premade flashcards, which are invariably shrunk to fit on one or two pages, and not necessarily high-resolution, so I crop out each image, and put them in PowerPoint, which I use as a virtual background.
I like it because the flashcards are full-screen and the person with whom they are talking is larger than the usual picture-in-picture, but this is problematic when I am targeting articulation.
Apparently if I click on my Zoom profile I can enable side-by-side screen share, so my lucky clients can see something like:
I easily found more flashcards for irregular verbs, but most of them were in a 3x3 grid, and not only do I want 10 cards
I prefer seeing my clients, but I need to see them when we target articulation, and I want the flashcards to look good.
I ran across a blog post with 10 flashcards, but they were low-resolution.
She sold them for $15, which seemed a little high, although there were 92 cards.
I tried using Vance to enlarge them and, not only was the enlarged image larger, but it was higher-quality.
Vance adds a watermark to the bottom, so I added whitespace, but after two it cut me off without paying.
If I was paying to get high-quality flashcards I am paying the person who made them!
I tried making my own, but didn't get anywhere.
Canva has an option and everything said "Free" until I wanted to download.
I tried finding clip art on free sites, but if it was actually free it had a watermark.
After spending hours trying to get 10 nice flashcards I remembered Teachers Pay Teachers and for $3 I bought 50 more cards like the one I shared, although when I went to pull that card I saw that the lady said she got her art from My Cute Graphics, where I found this:
I don't know that anyone will be able to tell, but the image on the flashcard has watermarks--not stamps, but white lines, which are easy enough to hide, but the one I downloaded doesn't have that!
I just don't like the way the lady squished the image. I tried Gimp's aggressive crop, but for some reason it cropped the space on the left of the ball, but not the right.
I needed to get rid of transparency in order to move the boy on the right and when I copied and pasted into Paint to save it, the boy on the right had a clone!
I tried to erase the extra, but I missed a third leg!
Awkward!
I amputated it, but when Gimp got rid of the transparency it also turned the background black, so I needed to adjust it to make the edges look okay.
I am still not happy, but I need to let it go.
If I do this again I think I will paint it white first, but hopefully the rest of the images don't bother me and I can just use them.
It is annoying that I finally paid for flashcards, but I feel the need to fix them.