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Modifying characters
Hello Heros!
I have a client that wants to use an illustrated character in our storyline module to represent her. The only problem is that she is white with long black hair. There is no charact...
Arturo Hernandez said:
Yes I need to change the characters clothes color, let me know asap
Arturo,
Someone (possibly Dave?) did a tutorial on this a few months back.
You can change the appearance of a character with just a little bit of work if you have powerpoint. I'm using PPT 2010 for this.
- First insert the character you want to change on a Storyline slide. Then right click and "save as picture." Save it as an EMF file.
- Now, open powerpoint and insert the .emf file.
- Select it and ungroup it. When Ppt asks, YES you want to ungroup it.
- Now, select it again and ungroup it again.
- After the 2nd ungroup, look at your selection pane. There is one group with over a hundred shapes, and then two other images that are not grouped. Those two are little strips across the neck, one colored and one white. Get rid of them. They'll just cause you trouble.
- Now, ungroup a third time.
- Finally you get to do the painstaking work of clicking on the hundred little pieces and recoloring them.
I've attached a file in which I recolored one character to have black hair and light skin. Also her clothes are now a new color.
Hi! Thanks so much for the technique. I got my character's top changed (she needed to look more Chef-like). But now she isn't saving right. I played around with this before and it saved fine but I didn't understand that neck thing so I needed to do again. First one saved great, second one...see attached.
