When I insert a picture, either pasted from my clipboard, or by using Insert/Picture, it has some Shadow effects automatically applied that I don't want. Is there a way to have the Shadow effects all default to zero? I have been manually changing each inserted picture thus far but now have run into an issue I can't fix - when I insert a screen recording and sometimes manually grab a screenshot with printscreen, those screenshots have the default Shadow effects and I can't remove them.
Thanks for any help fellow Forumites! And thanks Ashley Terwilliger for being my sample model (attached).
In the image you showed, it looks like there is a transparency also added to the object, but I don't see a shadow on that image. I tried to set up my image the same as you had, and included the image here. I don't see a shadow on the image I've included, but I see some blurriness too it (based on what I set).
Yes you're right, there's some transparency too. That's what's happening to my inserted pictures by default, yuck.
Is there a way to have all options in the Shadow tab default to zero (or blank as shown below) when inserting pictures? It's time consuming to alter the Picture Effects every time I insert a picture. There must be something I'm missing.
Thank you Ashley. I went to replicate the behavior where Storyline applies shading settings by default to an inserted picture, and found that it's only happening in a particular .story file. Very odd. The project is nearly complete so I will just work around it.
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Hi Cheryl,
I always wanted to be a model!
In the image you showed, it looks like there is a transparency also added to the object, but I don't see a shadow on that image. I tried to set up my image the same as you had, and included the image here. I don't see a shadow on the image I've included, but I see some blurriness too it (based on what I set).
Hi Ashley,
Yes you're right, there's some transparency too. That's what's happening to my inserted pictures by default, yuck.
Is there a way to have all options in the Shadow tab default to zero (or blank as shown below) when inserting pictures? It's time consuming to alter the Picture Effects every time I insert a picture. There must be something I'm missing.
Thanks!
Cheryl
Hi Cheryl,
There isn't a way to set a default for importing images, but it would be something you could send as a feature request.
Thank you Ashley. I went to replicate the behavior where Storyline applies shading settings by default to an inserted picture, and found that it's only happening in a particular .story file. Very odd. The project is nearly complete so I will just work around it.
Thank you!
Cheryl
Hi Cheryl,
If it's only happening in one file, you'll want to confirm that it's a local project file that you're working with. Working off a network or USB drive could cause odd behavior, and even cause file corruption.
Also, if it's just one file you could try importing it into a new Storyline project to see if that resolves any of the issues with the file.
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