Say I want to have something come up in a new layer, is there an easy way to blur out the slide beneath. It's easy to lightbox it either automatically or manually which is all well and good but for what I'm working on now I want the bottom layer to blur instead of fade a bit so yeah, possible?
Just a simple gaussian blur is all I need. At the mo I'm taking the screen into photoshop, blurring it and then putting it back in at the bottom of the layer so it gives the same effect.
A live blur would be amazing. Unfortunately, there isn't currently a way to do that in Storyline. Your method is probably the best approach at the moment.
Agreed. Live blur would be great. Bruce, I do what you do, blurring a copy of the image in Photoshop.
You got me thinking though, I wonder what would happen if you created a white patterned screen, blurred it, made it somewhat transparent and then overlaid it over what you wanted to blur... Wouldn't be a proper Gaussian blur but might be interesting.
I love hype, it could do with better text editing functions, hate the way I can never select the text and pasting text painting the formatting would be perfect. But other things are just so easy.
PowerPointLabs.info has a free plugin to PowerPoint that has a lot of options for effects like that. It might be easier than any other manual blurring.
I screenshot the image in the background and overlay it slightly off from the background image and make it a bit transparent. I suppose you could add an animation to make it wiggle around a bit?
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A live blur would be amazing. Unfortunately, there isn't currently a way to do that in Storyline. Your method is probably the best approach at the moment.
Agreed. Live blur would be great. Bruce, I do what you do, blurring a copy of the image in Photoshop.
You got me thinking though, I wonder what would happen if you created a white patterned screen, blurred it, made it somewhat transparent and then overlaid it over what you wanted to blur... Wouldn't be a proper Gaussian blur but might be interesting.
Cheers guys,
I also had a similar thought Brett, but couldn't get it to work right, let me know if you have any joy.
I have feature requested a blur a few times now.
I also tried creating a generic bluer overlay but couldn't get a good result either.
Good call, Phil. I drop in a feature request now. Bruce you might want to do so as well.
My feature request was on to levels, one was for blurring on a layer, they other was for blurring below transparent and semi transparent shapes
I like how Tumult Hype handles background filters: http://tumult.com/hype/whats-new/3.5/
Only works in Safari, apparently. Still like the idea of configuring an element to blur things behind it;)
I love hype, it could do with better text editing functions, hate the way I can never select the text and pasting text painting the formatting would be perfect. But other things are just so easy.
I've put in a request too now, Hopefully they'll sort that out but in the meanwhile at least there are methods.
PowerPointLabs.info has a free plugin to PowerPoint that has a lot of options for effects like that. It might be easier than any other manual blurring.
I screenshot the image in the background and overlay it slightly off from the background image and make it a bit transparent. I suppose you could add an animation to make it wiggle around a bit?
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