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Hey everyone,
Here's mine. I created a little tutorial on how to use the Crop tool in Storyline to size up pictures. It includes a little time-saving tip so that you can crop multiple pictures using the snap feature.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/12094fff-38cc-46d0-a013-ccadef5df443/review
I also wrote a blog about it on WordPress here:
https://dansweigert.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/quick-and-easy-image-cropping/
Hi Dan. In my opinion, you've put your finger on a really time-saving improvement that's missing in Storyline: having the ability to enter the height and width of the crop numerically, rather than moving the handles, left AND right AND up AND down AND again, which isn't always easy to do to pixel accuracy. And be able to move the cropping area around the image (as the zoom area does, for example). Don't you think? 🤔
Hi Thierry, Actually, you can enter the number manually if you want by unchecking the "lock aspect ratio" button and typing in the numbers, but you still need a visual to know how much you're cutting off on each side. That's why I like to line the picture I'm cropping up first so I can see how it's going to look. And the snapping feature makes that infinitely easier.
I probably misspoke, Dan. I didn't mean changing the size of a photo, which you can do manually or by entering height and width numbers as you show in your demo, I know. I was referring to cropping, which you can't set by entering numbers. No ? For example: crop width = 360 pix. in your case. I think that's a pity, and approximate (not you! but Storyline in this case).
That's right, you can't set the size of the photo directly by typing numbers into the length and width, but you can by unchecking the "lock aspect ratio" box and typing in the number of pixels you want to crop out on the top/bottom/left/right. But I prefer to do it with the snap tool which is a lot quicker and easier.