The blurry Screenshots in Storyline output
Mar 06, 2015
Hello everyone,
We have some trainings to use a lot of screenshots. I made the player size to "fit to the browser"
I realized that screenshots quality is not that good in other monitor.
So what happens is...
1. I took a screenshot in 1366x768. (Full screen)
2. Cut some parts from the screenshot in Photoshop
3. I added the screenshot to my story. I sized down slightly.(Didn't change portion)
4. Published
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1) on 1920*1080 monitor, it looks blurry
2) on my laptop 1600*900: Not super good but, it looks okay.
---- my story size is 960*540(16:9), image quality setting is set to "Maximum"
How can I add best quality screenshot images in my story?
1. Do I need to lock the player?
-- If I should lock the player, then what resolution I need to stick with..?
2. Is there any way I can improve screenshot quality while I'm keeping the player fit to setting?
3. Do I need to make story size bigger?
Any tips or other walkaround to make the quality better? Any related information would be helpful.
11 Replies
Hi Soogyung!
We would recommend that you lock your course at optimal size if you are having difficulty, and you can check out this tutorial for assistance if needed.
As far as recommendations, I'll defer to the community to chime in with you on this one :)
Hello Lesile!
Thank you for the reply.
We're doing some experiment to see what happens if we lock the player.
Do you have any suggestions for the size? What size can be the best option to have?
There are too many monitors and resolutions we need to consider, but there would be a standard and good generally for it.
Thanks,
Soogyung Gwon
You are welcome to check out this similar thread where our community members had a similar conversation. If you find what works for you and lock the settings, then you know what your users will be seeing consistently.
Hello Leslie,
That is a really helpful thread! I consider my story for only PC.
Now I can see that my screenshots look better after locking the player.
But some users will have scroll bars if they have a smaller screen. :-(
I guess that I need to find the best resolution.
Soogyung Gwon
Glad to hear that you are getting closer to your solution and the thread was able to assist you.
Yes, I'm getting closer to what I need!
Is there any ultimate resolution for PC?
Do you know which resolution people commly use other than ones in the post you metioned?
I can play with them as well to decide my story size.
Soogyung Gwon
I do not Soogyung as this comes down to designer preference.
I see. I will figure it out. Thanks for all your help!
Soogyung Gwon
No problem. Good luck!
I am having the same issue. I have set everything to optimal settings, and the output looks worse than a 1980s computer game! Extremely frustrated.
Also the screenshot provided is in Storyline 3.
Hello Ryan and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
Sorry to hear that you're funning into an issue with blurriness.
Is that simply a screenshot image or are you recording your screen? I do see an issue for Screen Recordings entered as Try Mode, but wasn't sure if that was the same issue.
If you have a .story file that we could take a look at, that would be helpful as well.
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