Text drop shadow or glow

Thanks James and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community. You can always share thoughts here in the forums and if there are particular features you'd like to see we also ask that you share them in the form of a feature request as those go to our product development team to review. 

A feature request for a roadmap to show the progress of feature requests for other features is a terrifying inception-like concept.

Greetings,

Johnny come lately here. I'm a bit confused: we need to put in a feature request for a feature that is already there? I've selected either the text box or the text itself and both have the option of adding a shadow effect but neither works. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

--Allen

Hi Allen,

Never too late - that's why we keep all the threads live. As far as the feature mentioned here, I am not sure if you were running into the same issue. I just tested in Storyline 2 and I was able to add a shadow to the text by clicking the text box or highlighting the text itself. I did this using the Shadow icon on the "Font" tab vs. the "Format shape" set up as you showed that is for the shape itself, not the text within it.

If I'm misunderstanding can you share a bit more information or a copy of your .story file here with us to take a look at? You can attach it using the "Add Attachment" button at the bottom of the reply window. 

Hi,

I am also having trouble with the text shadow feature...  I was able to find it in the "Font" tab, but when I click it, nothing happens to the text.  I tried it both by selecting the text box as well as highlighting the text in the box.  Any ideas?  Thank you!

Hi Marina,

Text glow does work, but it doesn't show up in design view for some reason. You need to preview/publish the course for it to work.

I'm not sure why, but it does work - although you are restricted to using the colours specified in your colour template.

Thanks
Jake

Thanks for explaining that!  I see it now!

Marina

Hi, Yann.

I also experienced what you described above, so I logged it as a possible software bug to our team and linked this discussion to the report.

I'll come back to update you when I have any news to share!

Quick workaround for editable text shadows:

1. Copy and paste textbox
2. Change new textbox to black text
3. Align slightly offset to achieve desired shadow angle
4. Select both text boxes when editing font size and style

Thanks John, but you cannot skew the shadow and make it fall to ground, like that in shape option of shadows, would be great if we could do that