Insert Zoom Region on a Layer

you could duplicate the slide and add the zoom on there then jump to the slide, smoke and mirrors but it works smoothly

I know that this won't work for everyone in every situation, but there are two ways I could think of to zoom in on a layer:

1.  Add the zoom picture icon to your picture.  This will zoom the entire picture, not just a portion of it, and it will only work if your original picture is larger (meaning you made it smaller after you inserted it).  You can find the zoom picture icon next to the crop button.

2.  Make your own zooms.  If your picture is high-res enough, make it larger and crop out an area you want as a zoom.  Insert this homemade zoom region as a hover state, somewhere along the timeline, or on another layer.

I made an example so you can see what I mean.  Can you tell I don't like to accept, "sorry, you can't do that," for an answer?

Remember to submit feature requests: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature  They really do pay attention to these, and the more requests they get for a feature, the higher it goes on the list.

Hope it helps!

Jill

Is there an update on the implementation of the Zoom Region on layers? The original request was 6 years ago!

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The couple of things you can't do on a slide layer have just been killing me lately, and this is definitely one of them.

Jill - Great solution!  I've been using Storyline since beta-testing and have never run across this feature as I've never had a need for it.  Reminds me of how pictures zoom in Engage.  Thanks for sharing!

Hi Guys,

A while ago I had to a small presentation for a diagnosis tool for school kids.

I wanted to get some control over zoomed in sections of a form.

(1) SO, I just zoomed up my original image in PS,

(2) screen grab the zoomed in section I was interested in,

(3) Crop away the parts of the screen you don't want (good time to add a little drop shadow and unsharp mask, so it stands off the page)

(4) then have the pieces popup in sync with the VO on different layers over the top of the original image

Not particularly sophisticated by it may assist someone.

Cheers

Garry

Thanks Garry for sharing that idea here, sometimes the easiest solution, are well...easy.

That is such a complicated and time consuming way to just add one tiny thing to a slide. Surely a solution is being worked on. Why can't articulate just allow zoom regions on all slides and layers? 

Hi Philippa,

This thread is a bit older, but there is not a change to this behavior - it's still set up that you cannot zoom in within a layer. If you'd like to share your thoughts on this you're welcome to send it along to our team here.