Help With a SL2 Weekly Challenge # 1

Hey Matt! Thanks for posting your file. I'm taking a look at it right now and let you know what I find. 

Hi Matt,

You did the right thing by enabling each slide layer to not hide the other layers. The only thing preventing each layer's airplane from showing is that you added a solid background picture to the bottom of each slide layer.

Delete Sky.jpg from each slide layer and you'll see your airplanes overlap one another.

David

Thanks so much for your help!  I will try that when I get back to the office.  Is it ok if I reach out to you if I have another problem with this challenge?

Of course it is! Just post a follow-up note here and I'll help out for as long as it takes!

I am re-attaching the file.  I made the adjustments.  Just wondered if you would critique it, maybe give it a quick look with a designer's eye.  Thanks again.  Your company has the best customer service I've ever seen, and I train customer service representatives for a living.

Hi Matt -

Thanks for the super kind words re: the community. That really means a lot coming from someone who works in the customer service industry! Thank you.

So your file looks really great overall. If I were to make any suggestions, they would be to:

Lighten the background graphic. The sky graphic is a really nice touch but it weakens the contrast between the airplanes and the background. I made a super subtle tweak to fade it out a little.

Scale the planes up a bit so they use up more of the screen. Since we're talking about comparisons, I think the plane elements should be a larger focal point.

You added transparency to most of the graphics but I think you missed it on one of the green planes. I updated the plane to include some transparency.

That's all I can think of. You can find my updates in the published version: http://articulate-community.s3.amazonaws.com/Examples/Storyline/Challenge_One-da/story.html

I also attached my updated file to this thread.

Thank you so much for sharing your project!