Rotating an Image using States

Hi Jeanette,  Thank you for the above fix from 10 years ago.  It took me a while to figure out what you meant about duplicating, copying, and pasting the picture, rotating it, etc.  Surprised that after ten years, Storyline hasn't evolved to let you rotate an image on a state, and you still need to paste the picture. 

In my project, when I used the State panel and the image icon to create new states for an image, it kept putting some of the images in landscape instead of portrait.  That was very confusing because the original file had the image in portrait orientation.  Storyline kept flipping some of them sideways.  Completely annoying.   The really weird thing was it wasn't consistent.  Even though all my images were in portrait orientation, Storyline would flip only some of them to landscape.  Even more strange when I inserted each image as an actual picture into the Story, they came in in portrait orientation just like they are in the file and I didn't need to rotate.  Weird!

Just so everyone has the steps to rotate a picture for a state, if it doesn't appear correctly when you add the image to the state using the image icon on the states/timeline bar, these are the steps.

1.  Create the object (it needs to be an image for this to work) you want to change the states on.

2.  Choose "insert picture from file" on the main top toolbar.

3.  Paste it somewhere in your story.  I inserted the images onto extra temporary slides. 

4.  Rotate your image to the orientation you want for your new state.

5.  Copy (Ctrl + C) 

6.  Navigate back to your object.

7.  Select the object.

8.  Now, in the states panel, click edit states and then click create a new state.

9.  On your keyboard, just do the paste function (Ctrl + V)

10.  If you need to do any moving or size changes, the image has handles for that purpose.

11.  If you are finished, click Done.

Not positive, but I believe your image name and your state name need to be the same.