Can I create transparent text in Storyline?

What do you mean by transparent?  Do you mean so the text appears like a stencil - cut out from the background?  Or simply invisible or semi-- transparent?

The simplest way would be to write the text and then save it as a image (perhaps by using a screen capture tool like Windows Snip?) - paste it back as an image and adjust the transparency value in the Image Format settings

Very crude but like this -  the first is actual text in text object, the other two are copies of text which have been captured and then pasted as images and had the transparency setting adjusted:

What I'm hoping to do is use oversized text at about 18% transparency, so that background images are visible through the letters.

BTW if you are using an image background the top tip is to write the text with the background image visible then do the capture - it should all line up with a bit of trial and error and as you adjust the transparency the background in the text image will merge invisibly with the real background image....using an image to place text on a page is a neat trick if you want to try out a variety of f.x not available within the text tool.

You could also export your text out as a picture.  Then import the picture back into your course and apply the transparency to that.

How do you Export text as a picture? Ah I see!  Right click on text box to get Export as Picture...yeah that's neat.  That's absolutely the best way to do it.  Thanks Gerry - top tip.

This works with any shape object so you can use it with shapes and captions too.

YUP!  Right-click on your text box and then select "Export Shape as Picture."

Great tip. Thanks, Gerry.

Glad it helped! :)

Thanks for the nice suggestions to make text transparant.

But it still puzzles me. Are the following observations correct?

From text in a textbox:

• The fill can be transparant (0-100%)
• The outline can be transparant (0-100%)
• The text itself can NOT be made transparant at all

And the only way to make text transparant... is to turn it into a picture

• which is extra work
• not editable any more
• has a larger filesize
• and is not as sharp as plain text

Hi Douwe,

Your observations are correct.

If you don't want to turn the text into an image you could alternatively duplicate the background image in front of the text and then apply transparency to the front image.