Color mode (multiply) for image overlay

Ran into this issue today, really disheartening to see its been "known" for more than 3 years and is still an issue. :/

I don't understand why is it even there as an unworkable option? Remove it, make it work, then introduce it.

Mr. Collins, I agree.  If it's not working and known not to be, please don't include it as an option.

A year later, and using Storyline 360, it's still not working.  

Is there any news on this feature? I'm building a course and the visuals use this filter a lot. I don't understand why the option is there but it doesn't work.

Hello Wendy and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

Thanks for reaching out and sharing that you are running into a similar issue.

I've updated our report to reflect the user impact. I wanted to share some information on how we define bugs and how we tackle them when they occur.

Are you able to adjust the transparency and have this work for you?

Hi Leslie. Thanks for the update, but I would like to stress that adjusting transparency is absolutely not the same thing at all. It's fundamentally different. And I know I am probably mansplaining here, and for that, I do apologise, but I do think that suggesting transparency as a solution is a cop-out on behalf of Articulate.

MULTIPLY - It's unique among all the blend modes in that it's the only one named after the actual math that Photoshop performs behind the scenes when you have the Multiply mode selected. Photoshop takes the colours from the layer that's set to the Multiply blend mode and multiplies them by the colours on the layer(s) below it, then divides them by 255 to give us the result. - Photoshop Essentials

It allows for the base image to be seen with more definition. As opposed to transparency which simply muddies both 'layers'. Multiply also has the added benefit of rendering any white on the multiplied layer to become essentially invisible which can give rise to very interesting mask effects.

NORMAL

SOLID

80% OPACITY = 20% TRANSPARENCY

80% MULTIPLY

Why is it still offered as an option when it OBVIOUSLY does not work as intended? It's embarrassingly weird that there is an entire section of formatting within the software that is broken, and you guys are doing nothing to address the fact.

Just to give some reference, since the output should be implemented with html/css native property defined in standards, or canvas 2D API:

CSS property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-mode

Canvas 2D API property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/globalCompositeOperation

Wow. That's awesome stuff. How amazing would it be to be able to specify these properties within Articulate? And be able to create animations using these?

Or, more interestingly, how does your workflow Zio, incorporate all this CSS/Canvas whizzbang stuff with module production in 360?

Storyline SDK engine essentialy tranlsates each slide composition to an output that is already using canvas, css and js into html5 code. Articulate team have developed their libraries also for the graphic properties and I suppose they are based on canvas 2D API, so in my opinion the developing team shoud just fix the implementation/translation from the project interface to the canvas output to make those properties working. Now that the flash output is not supported anymore, there should be more time for the team to spend fixing the html5 output ;)

Hi Leslie

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately if I adjust the transparency, the colours loose their vibrancy therefore not being in brand. Multiply is a great feature, adjusting the transparency just doesn't match.