Text drop shadow or glow

May 28, 2013

Having trouble applying a drop shadow or glow effect to text (NOT the text box) that I am laying over an imgae.  There appears to be no way todo this in Storyline.  Help please.

28 Replies
Andrea Koehntop

Hi Libby! 

I apologize for the issues you are having. 

The bug reported and being worked on by our team is: adding shape effects to text boxes is only reflected in Preview/Published modes, not when editing the slide.

If that doesn't fit the same issue you are experiencing, could you share more details with us? 

Steven Benassi

Hi Michele!

It sounds like you had questions about applying effects to the text itself in Storyline 360. Just to clarify, were you looking to achieve a similar goal that Jake mentioned earlier in this discussion?

If so, currently the only options available for text effects are: Bold, Italics, Underline, Shadow, Strikethrough, and Character Spacing.

Text Effects Storyline 360

A wider variety of font effects sounds like an interesting concept that I can share with our development team!

Thanks for reaching out! Please let me know if you have any more questions!