Take Screenshots and Add Details
Transcript
In this video, you will take screenshots from at least four different years of your timelapse. Then, you will copy and paste the screenshots into your document, crop each image, and add captions. Screenshots are pictures of what is currently on your screen. When you put screenshots into your document, you can communicate to an audience how something changed and include your own analysis with it. To begin, go back to Google Earth Engine and slow the time lapse down. Pause the time lapse at the earliest year available. If you accidentally go past the earliest year, use the arrow to go back.
Close the information you don’t need anymore, And zoom in so you can see more details. Take a screenshot of the photo using your computer’s screenshot tool. Then, copy and paste the screenshot into your document. Crop out anything you don’t want in the image, like browser tabs and other timelapse topics. Use the guides on each side of the image to make it larger. Then, add a caption to the bottom of each image with the year it was taken. Next, repeat the process for any two years in the middle. You may want to choose years where you can clearly see environmental changes. Finally, copy and paste a screenshot from the last year that is available. Now, it’s your turn: Take screenshots from at least four different years of your timelapse, Copy and paste the screenshots into your document, Crop each image, And add a caption with the year each image was taken.
Instructions
- Take screenshots from at least four different years of your timelapse.
- Copy and paste the screenshots into your document.
- Crop each image.
- Add a caption with the year each image was taken.