HOW DO YOU USE FLAT PACK TO FLATTEN AND SECURE YOUR TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS PRODUCTS

[@ItsAllPrimary]

I apologize for the camera quality. I'm working on lighting and my crazy camera focuses on the farthest object away! What is your favourite tool for flattening and securing your TPT products?

[@kirstenharris9301]

I have a free way to flatten and secure your products as well. Once all of your slides are in tip top shape, you go to FILE and then down to EXPORT then down to CHANGE FILE TYPE... choose PNG and when it asks you choose all slides. It will create a folder for each slide as a separate PNG. I then open a new PowerPoint and click INSERT … PHOTO ALBUM... and insert all of the slides you want in the album. You will need to go and change your slide size after inserting them but this flattens and secures everything.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

@@kirstenharris9301 I've seen this technique on a YT video but have never tried. Thank you for sharing it! How do you add hyperlinks to your images?

[@MrsPTarleton]

Congratulations on your new position. So close to home. My school is 17 min away and I thought that was great...but 7 min is even better.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thanks! I would have been excited for 17 minutes, too! Maybe 1 day I'll get to walk!

[@MrsPTarleton]

@@ItsAllPrimary Sounds nice to walk to work, but then I think about walking next to students. I kneed some quiet time in morning 🌄

[@MichelleGayScienceTeacher]

Congratulations on your job!!! Blessings dear!

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thank you, dear friend!

[@deniserichardson7769]

Can you do a video on how to flatten things using Flat Pack when the powerpoint is editable.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Denise, video is coming!

[@portiasweeting]

You are such a wonderful teacher!

[@ItsAllPrimary]

You are so sweet, Portia. Thank you!

[@anakatharinamarin-rueda6299]

Finally!!! I bought my flatpack during the first week of August at TPT. On sale, thanks for your recommendation. Just got back from vacation and installing it in my new computer. Little by little but getting there to upload my first product but a few more things to do before. No rush LOL ($) Thanks again, Your videos are my guide to open it soon.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Woo hoo! I think you will like FlatPack - I do! Let me know how it goes.

[@marykeTerr]

Congratulations on the new job!

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thank you!

[@hnnh_wllms]

Congratulations on your new job 💕

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thank you, Hannah!

[@aronrrustemaj]

Very very excited about flattening my products, I dont know why it just excites me as a tpt author 🤣🤣. I dont actually have flat pack but I do use a website to flatten my pdfs, soooooo helpful and to be honest it's a great free alternative, it doesnt do as much and there is a limit to how many pages you can secure (200 pages) but it's amazing. ALSO, congrats on your new job...Prayers really do get answered, in someway, some form and some time. So happy for you

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Haha - I get excited about flattening with Flat Pack - so easy! Free websites work too! Thank you for your prayers - yes, they are always answered!

[@FrenchProfCC]

Congratulations on your job! That is really wonderful! Thanks for the video. Flattening has been a major obstacle to posting on TPT for me and a great excuse for procrastination . . . . Using Adobe has felt bulky, chaotic and been somewhat confusing to me. Off to check out Flat Pack.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thanks! Yes, you are right about Adobe, clunky!

[@SoothingNature20]

Congratulations on your new job!... and always interesting content. Have a relaxing day my teacher friend!... 👍🙏🤗🌳🌄

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Thank you, dear friend!

[@staci-beeinprimary561]

Hi Loriann! I just went to TpT to find Flat Pack for Mac and it is not there. Any insight on this?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Staci - Flat Pack for Mac is in their website store: bearwoodlabs.gumroad.com/l/PTlaBt

[@amandalipschitz3592]

Hi ….. I’m still in the process of making products. I’m still learning. I have a few questions. I amu using hyperlinks to show right answer and wrong answer. Will he animations work. Wipe, custom motion paths and fade in and out? Also will the animation work as a pdf? Also do u have to give links for clip art or just image?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Amanda, animations probably won't work in your pdf but if you keep it was a powerpoint, the animations will work. Have you heard of Flat Pack? It will flatten and secure your clipart and fonts in powerpoint.

[@amandalipschitz3592]

@@ItsAllPrimary Yes, I will definitely buy Flatpack! So just to confirm . I need to keep my product in PowerPoint to have any animations.. not a pdf. Pdf would be for still images.?

[@amandalipschitz3592]

But I could still hyperlink I and use as pdf if no animation

[@amandalipschitz3592]

Also is it unprofessional( does it limit the product ?)to have a product in PowerPoint .

[@wendyborn9487]

Thank you! Congrats (one year later! :) on your new job. IF I am just getting STARTED on TPT and ALL I want to post (for now) are printable PDFs, can't I simply Download as a PDF from Google Slides and post to TPT? I am working on my "homework" assignment of a square format cover, ETC, ETC. I am hanging in there with the LEARNING CURVE. Much appreciated.

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Wendy, it depends on any clipart used. If you are using clipart or paid fonts (which are not available on Google Slides), you would need to flatten & secure before uploading. Your first product also needs to be a Freebie.

[@karenwoodward3387]

Did you buy the flat pack bundle? If so, do you like it?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Yes, but I had already had one of the products so I contacted Bearwood Labs and they discounted the price of the product I had. I haven't tried Note to Followers but I will be this weekend.

[@ErinElliottMusic]

Do you know if there is a way to keep an icon or textbox flattened but make a hyperlink still active?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Yes, you can add a textbox on top of the image. Flatten the image, click "do not flatten" to the textbox.

[@courtneyreyman3094]

Hi there! I'm new to creating educational printables and I'm confused by what "flattening" means. When I create a worksheet in MS Word or MS Powerpoint, I always go to "File," then "Export to PDF." I thought that automatically flattened the document, but I'm getting the idea that just because it's in a PDF doesn't necessarily mean it's flattened. What does flattening mean?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Courtney, flattening means to flatten any text or images from being lifted by thieves. Like you, I thought converted a powerpoint to pdf was enough. It wasn't. Many sellers do this, but I tried removing an image from a pdf (from a big TPT seller) product, and I could do it. I emailed them (and they thanked me!). There are a few pdf flatteners out there. I use Bearwood Labs (totally worth the price), but if funds are scarce pdf toolkit is a popular one used by TPT sellers.

[@courtneyreyman3094]

@@ItsAllPrimary I never would have guessed lifting images from a pdf was possible. Thank you so much for explaining! I'll look into both tools. I wish you the best in the new school year! :)

[@rebecadacosta3836]

I’ve been securing my PDFs by saving them as PNG images, but the quality of the images is not as crisp. Will this product help with that?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

I haven't had any problem with quality. What size are you saving them as?

[@aronrrustemaj]

@@ItsAllPrimary When I first got my laptop, PowerPoint was saving images AWFULLY like they weren't even getting saved to a size that they weren't blurry. What I had to do was edit some information in the registry for my laptop. What I will do is I will, if that's okay with you leave 2 links under this video to 2 new videos that i have made for my new KZbin channel! 1 will be a link on how to flatten tpt products fast and easy. Link 2 will be how to make PowerPoint save higher quality pngs and jpegs!

[@ItsAllPrimary]

@@aronrrustemaj Hi Aron, yes, please share the links. I will watch them!

[@aronrrustemaj]

@@ItsAllPrimary Hi! here is the link to the first video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJy9n6yEZsudjq8

[@ItsAllPrimary]

@@aronrrustemaj Watched this - great stuff!

[@anakatharinamarin-rueda6299]

Quick question, when you give credit to canvas for making the cover, do you have the free account or paid?

[@ItsAllPrimary]

Hi Ana, I have the paid account but I would give credit either way.