Image Size - matters or not?

Hi Bobby,

I would insert them into Storyline at the size you'd like them to display - doing it within Storyline may cause a loss of quality based on scaling and other image settings. You may also want to look at the options detailed here in terms of formatting and adjusting images added into Storyline. 

Thank you for the reply Ashley. I've checked the options too. I am ready to accept some loss of quality, but my question is rather - Would images that are imported very big but and are resized in Storyline make the project very heavy?

Thank you once again

B

Hi Bobby, 

I wanted to point you to a really great discussion where Steve does a good job explaining how Storyline will handle images and their size inserted. 

If you're concerned about overall Storyline file size, I'd recommend doing a test publish because, depending on your quality settings, the compression may cut down the file size. The higher the quality, the more likely you are to have a larger file size. The lower the quality, the lower the file size. 

Storyline publishes a number of files for your project and these will vary a little, depending on the options you select for publishing, so if you're working with some file size limitations for where you're going to upload, you'll want to double check those elements. 

Hi there Ashley

Thank you once again for the precious advice and the great link. It certainly helps!

Cheers

B

I would insert large images and resize in storyline, I find images can pixelate badly when inserted at the size you need especially things like icons and diagrams.  I much prefer to put in larger images and let storyline optimise them n publish.

Thank you for your reply Phil. This is what I would usually do. It's just that the project I am working on is getting a bit of a monster so I need to keep the image size factor in mind. 

I only ever worry about the final output size, I have worked with 1.5gb files and had no issues

As you can see Bobby, everyone may have a different thought on how to set this up - and my information is based less on experience within my own projects but what we've seen in files, forum threads or documentation - Phil is definitely an expert in terms of building large courses with a lot of images and more, so he's a good one to take advice from. ;)

Hey there Ashley

Thank you - you have been very helpful

Thank you too Phil. That makes sense.