Background Image turns black upon Preview/Publish (SL3)

May 31, 2019

Hi, I am using a large background image on the slide master (it's a very colorful JPG image of a store setting).  The image turns completely black upon Preview; I published the project and the image is still black. 

I removed the image from the slide master and pasted it on each slide - it's still black when I view the project.

I changed the JPG to a PNG...still black, lol.

Has anyone else experienced this? 

7 Replies
Katie Riggio

Oh no, Denise. Sorry you're running into that oddity!

Does this happen with any .JPG file, or a particular one? Also, would you mind sharing the image of the store setting so I can try to replicate the behavior? You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by using this upload link.

I'll let you know what I see, and will delete it after troubleshooting. We'll sort what's going on here together!

Jose Tansengco

Hello Lan Ma,

Happy to check this for you.

We're not seeing this issue being reported by our other users anymore so there's a possibility that the incident is isolated. I want to ask a few questions to help clarify your experience:

  • Have you tried testing the behavior using other image files for the background? 
  • Are you using Storyline 3 or Storyline 360?
  • If all images are affected, have you tried repairing Storyline 3?

If only one image file causes the black background issue, please share a copy of your project file here or in private by opening a support case so we can take a closer look at what's happening. We'll delete it when we're done testing!