Our E Learning is based on our software (developed in house). A majority of our scenes are screen shots. In my former content program I built each screen capture to a 800 X 600 format as a .png format. In a standard Storyline slide that size seems to be to big and my images are a little blurry.
I am a newbie to Articulate so any suggestions are welcome.
Not sure what you mean by "have to"? Also, I'm not an expert on graphics and resolution, so if you're asking about best practices in terms of quality, I'll defer to others. They can tell you whether it's best to crop the photo to the correct size before inserting it into SL.
What I CAN tell you is:
Default Story size is width 720 x height 540
I just experimented with a photo on my hard drive that was initially width 832 x height 600
I inserted it "as is"
The picture format dialog box shows that it is now width 720 x height 519
Mark, when I do the screen shot, I can resize the image to any size I want, however the quality of the image is my concern. A standard 800 X 600 image is blurry. It gets even worse when I zoom focus. I guess Ill review my software settings and see if their is a way I can capture differently.
Thanks for the heads up on the actual slide size. That helps.
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Hi Scott,
Welcome aboard!
Storyline's default slides size is 720 x 540. You can "see" this by
Please shout out with any questions.
Do you have to bring in the existing 800 X 600 images or are starting fresh?
Hi Mark,
Not sure what you mean by "have to"? Also, I'm not an expert on graphics and resolution, so if you're asking about best practices in terms of quality, I'll defer to others. They can tell you whether it's best to crop the photo to the correct size before inserting it into SL.
What I CAN tell you is:
Default Story size is width 720 x height 540
I just experimented with a photo on my hard drive that was initially width 832 x height 600
I inserted it "as is"
The picture format dialog box shows that it is now width 720 x height 519
Thanks Mark and Rebecca for the replies.
Mark, when I do the screen shot, I can resize the image to any size I want, however the quality of the image is my concern. A standard 800 X 600 image is blurry. It gets even worse when I zoom focus. I guess Ill review my software settings and see if their is a way I can capture differently.
Thanks for the heads up on the actual slide size. That helps.
Hi Scott,
One other thing...is your DPI set to 96? Distortion can occur if not. Here's a link to a support page on DPI.
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