Last updated on 6 October 2017
Pictogon is a great tool that will allow you toEasily inject a good dose of interactivity into any image. An online service to discover to create educational resources for your courses in a simple and even fun way.
Pictogon Mapping areas in an image and then being able to make them active when someone passes or clicks with their mouse on it. The inscription is made in two steps three movements and is not particularly intrusive. You can test the service without registering, but you will not be able to save or share your creations.
Pictogon provides you with four examples to get started and practice before you jump into the big bath and create your own image. Only small flaw to my liking you can not upload an image from your computer, you will have to provide an address where the service will retrieve the image.
Once on the screen, you will be able to define one or more areas by surrounding them with points to delimit their contours. You may not be able to do it the first time, it is a blow to take, but then you will see once you get used to it everything is done very quickly. You can create as many areas as you want.
For each of them, a editing area will allow you to define all possible interactions. Both when the reader hoveres his mouse over the area and when he clicks on it. It's up to you to choose. You will be able to display a text or a link. You can also play with colors to make bubbles and additions more impactful.
Once you have finished creating the linked areas and actions for each of them, all you have to do is save. Pictogon will provide you with a code to insert your interactive image on a site or blog. You will also be able to upload your image in SVG format.
[Tweet “With Pictogon creating an interactive image on the web becomes a breeze …or almost.”]Pictogon allows you to create three interactive images free of charge for unlimited access to the tool, you will have to pay a little bit of EUR 4 per month.
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