Zooming and Magnifying Images in E-Learning #374: Challenge | Recap
A typical design challenge for course designers involves working with high-resolution images in a smaller, mobile-friendly screen size. You can run with Storyline 360's zoom region, markers, and zoom picture tools for quick-hit solutions. All three will quickly give learners a close-up view of detailed images.
But when you're looking for more custom solutions, you have to get creative. And that's what this week's challenge is all about! But first, let's take a look at a few examples.
Using Sliders to Magnify Parts of a Photo
Sliders are most often used to let learners explore cause-and-effect relationships or manipulate data and numeric values. In this example, the slider is used to reveal parts of the photo.
Here's a neat example that simulates a motion blur effect to zoom into parts of a painting. The zoom blur effect is created by layering multiple images with varying blur values and progressively revealing each image as the timeline plays.
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Late to the game again, but here is an example I made for a course on counterfeit bills. I did have one major frustration building this course, you cannot take a good image of a bill due to counterfeiting protection software, you can't save the image. So, I apologize for the images pixilating a bit, but it is a security feature built into computers. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/0830a79a-0355-41b3-a958-546a58513bfa/review
I'm (finally) just getting into learning Storyline. I figured, what better way to explore than use the E-Learning Challenges as my training projects. Without further ado, my first complete Storyline product:
This is a great starting project. I appreciate how you explored and demonstrated various ways to use a zoom effect in Storyline; that is truly a brilliant way to learn the application along with participating in the community through challenges.
This is the "Better Late Than Never Monopoloy Board." Out of town last week, getting ready to start a new job this week (yay). However, I wanted to get this in! I love these challenges...learning so much.
This was a timely challenge. We are introducing a new system and the elearning that came with it is a bit dated. I liked the idea of using the zoom feature. This is a first cut.
For this submission I used three different functions to zoom and magnify images. (1) The first option was to use the built in click to zoom image on slide one. One slide two I (2) inserted a Zoom Region, and (3) used states and buttons to let the user zoom out and in.
I recently heard about a customized map maker, Felt.com, and explored a few of its features to recreate my hiking experience at Lost Maples State Natural Area. I used the park trail map for descriptions and pinned sites, as well as trail color coding, then inserted my own photos from my experiences in the park for a more interactive version of the park's PDF and paper map.