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LouiseKenyon
Community Member
5 years ago

Editing icons in Storyline

Hi all I am hoping someone may be able to help with this. I want to use icons in the attached slide as back/forward buttons, but the white arrows in the icons are transparent (I have put a couple ...
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JudyNollet
Super Hero
5 years ago

Hi, Louise,

Understandable that you don't want multiple objects where you only need one. 

You could copy each icon into image-editing software, fill the transparent part, and then insert those images into Storyline. Another option to create filled icons: copy each icon into PowerPoint, put a properly sized and aligned white circle behind it, select both of those objects, and then right click to use the Save as Picture option.

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LouiseKenyon
Community Member
5 years ago

Hi Judy

Thanks for responding - I did give that a go using PowerPoint and Snagit and saving a normal and disabled ‘picture’, but the resolution was lost a little when I added the picture back in to SL, so the quality wasn’t great. I was hoping there was a way to to fill in the transparent section of the icon in SL that I may have missed 😊. if there isn’t I will make it work through saving as a picture. Just need a few attempted to get the quality right  

Louise

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    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    5 years ago

    Yeah, it's unfortunate that PNGs and JPGs don't maintain quality when scaled. 

    PowerPoint lets you save images in the SVG format. Have you tried that?