Here is the second installment of the English Raven Teaching Materials Design Masterclass (if you can forgive the pomposity...), continuing on from the first tutorial about designing basic headers and footers.
This tutorial shows what can be done for basic backgrounds with a little playing around, remembering of course that an unadorned white background is perfectly okay for most materials! However, the point here is to show you how some things can be done, which in turn will prove useful for later tutorials more to do with your content layout (for example, my '1:3 design' principle).
The next tutorial demonstrates how to make those neat little 'activity sequence markers' (or 'buttons') you can see in professional materials... so drop by same time next week to see that, or if you're too thirsty to wait, pop over to the materials design section of English Raven and see it now (tutorials 1 through 12 are all available there at the time of writing this post).
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