Picture shape
Jun 12, 2013
By
Gary Weaver
I feel like I'm all takin' and no givin' but I am new. Maybe I will be able to help others someday. My problem at this point is that I have a photo that I would like to conform to one of the pre-designed shapes in Storyline.
Let's say I had a square photo of poka-dots and that I wanted it to be the shape of a star. Is there a way to use the Insert shape option in storyline to give me a polka-dotted star on my slide?
Thanks.
3 Replies
Have you tried one of the Shape Fill options,like the Picture, Pattern or texture fill? This may do the trick.
Hi Gary,
Michael's solution, using patterns, works for sure. I noticed that you said:
Let's say I had a square photo of poka-dots and that I wanted it to be the shape of a star. Is there a way to use the Insert shape option in storyline to give me a polka-dotted star on my slide?
I just did a quick search at the Microsoft clip art site on polka dots and came across a few. I downloaded two, and they're actually "square images of polka dots". I've inserted them into the star shape. Nothing fancy - and I'm SURE there are better photos out there - just to say yes, it works.
Similar to what Michael shows, the steps were
Oh, and no worries about the givin' and takin'. That's what we all do here!
I am very appreciative of your replies, however, what I said in my original post is not what has been picked up on. I used polka dots as an example (which was a bad example). Let's change it up. A better example, for those of you who bake is using a cookie cutter. You start with a square slab of dough and cookie cut a shape out of the dough. Pretend that the photo is the square dough (let's pretend it is a mountain scene) and I want to cookie cut a shape out of it and keep that cut out shape.
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