Great question, no silliness to it. If you insert images in Rise they may be cropped by the responsive elements of Rise or the specifics of that lesson. Take a look here at how an image displays in portrait versus landscape.
It would be great to know how you'd like to crop an image and what impact that would have on your course. That's the type of info that's helpful to our Product team as they plan out new features.
Thanks Ashley! As Angel said, the crop function as it is in PowerPoint would save the double handling of choosing an image from the content library, downloading, cropping, then resaving, and re-uploading.
I'm trying to crop an image too but from the library in SL. I was hoping not having to export it out to crop it and then import it back in. I'm trying to fit the image on a slide and need to chop off the legs of a character. I know I can resize the whole image but then it's too small. I scaled the image up so it would better present on the slide. Using an external software makes it so that i have to guess where to crop it prior to importing it.
Glad you found what you need in Storyline, Michael! A few different options there than in Rise, but here's a bit more on adding and editing characters in Storyline 360.
A cropping tool for the content library in RISE would be useful. An example for my project right now: I need a banner image - something that will stretch across the page as a strip - maybe 10: 1 dimension ratio. I don't want anything loud or with much meaning, just a bit of colour. No strip images came up in content library searching with "banner". With a cropping tool I could search for a topic and then just quickly crop to take a strip of the image, and test it. I'm just looking at the ocean.jpg image now and I could use the top 20%. Or another example is the image: J5ozty4MnIKK33HW-stock-image.jpg I could use the top edge of that photo with its water & light texture.
I've just tried cropping outside of Rise but the "image full width" option seems to have a minimum height. So if I crop thinner, the image just gets moved off the screen and displays at the same height. So it seems that my idea of a thin strip of colour doesn't work with the Rise concept as there is a minimum height for all images
It would be great if one could simply click and drag a photo. For example, when using a quote on an image, I don't get the part of the photo that I want to be visible with the automatic crop. Here is where it would be great to be able to drag the photo up or down to get it where I want.
Hi Paul and Lucas. You're both right. Because of Rise's responsive nature, the content shifts to fit the device size and orientation. Check out this information from our best practices article:
In addition to using high quality images, it's a good idea to use images where important details won't be lost if the edges are cropped. Rise courses are fully responsive, so your images may have different dimensions as they adapt to different devices and orientations.
That said, thanks for telling us what would work best for you! I'll share your insight with our team.
I agree. It's been quite a frustration to go in and out of Rise to edit images. A simple crop functionality or even focal points to assign a specific area of the image for display would go a long way.
Please let me know if the feature request makes the cut!
I am also looking for an option to drag photos from the content library (or uploaded images) up or down in Rise to display specific details in an image. Am following the discussion here.
Has there been a solve for this? I am trying to use the text on image feature in Rise and am picking photos from the content library. Several photos are cropped oddly with people's heads cropped off. I'd love to be able to move the photo down so the heads show in the image (similar to the crop feature in PPT). It's getting rather frustrating that every image that I select is cropped oddly (automatically) and I haven't been able to find a solve for it.
We're working on built-in cropping and image editing tools in Rise 360 to help you create the perfect picture. We'll let you know when that feature arrives!
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Best to crop it in PowerPoint and re-save but I think that this is a great idea. Rise team, would it be possible to develop this functionality?
Hi Libby,
Great question, no silliness to it. If you insert images in Rise they may be cropped by the responsive elements of Rise or the specifics of that lesson. Take a look here at how an image displays in portrait versus landscape.
It would be great to know how you'd like to crop an image and what impact that would have on your course. That's the type of info that's helpful to our Product team as they plan out new features.
Thanks Ashley! As Angel said, the crop function as it is in PowerPoint would save the double handling of choosing an image from the content library, downloading, cropping, then resaving, and re-uploading.
Thanks, Libby.
We'll let you know here if this makes a future update of Rise. 😀
I vote for this feature.
I'm trying to crop an image too but from the library in SL. I was hoping not having to export it out to crop it and then import it back in. I'm trying to fit the image on a slide and need to chop off the legs of a character. I know I can resize the whole image but then it's too small. I scaled the image up so it would better present on the slide. Using an external software makes it so that i have to guess where to crop it prior to importing it.
Never mind, the simple thinks get me! I found the crop tool under Character Tools tab.
I was right-clicking and looking in the format picture and size and position.
Glad you found what you need in Storyline, Michael! A few different options there than in Rise, but here's a bit more on adding and editing characters in Storyline 360.
A cropping tool for the content library in RISE would be useful. An example for my project right now: I need a banner image - something that will stretch across the page as a strip - maybe 10: 1 dimension ratio. I don't want anything loud or with much meaning, just a bit of colour. No strip images came up in content library searching with "banner". With a cropping tool I could search for a topic and then just quickly crop to take a strip of the image, and test it. I'm just looking at the ocean.jpg image now and I could use the top 20%. Or another example is the image: J5ozty4MnIKK33HW-stock-image.jpg I could use the top edge of that photo with its water & light texture.
I've just tried cropping outside of Rise but the "image full width" option seems to have a minimum height. So if I crop thinner, the image just gets moved off the screen and displays at the same height. So it seems that my idea of a thin strip of colour doesn't work with the Rise concept as there is a minimum height for all images
It would be great if one could simply click and drag a photo. For example, when using a quote on an image, I don't get the part of the photo that I want to be visible with the automatic crop. Here is where it would be great to be able to drag the photo up or down to get it where I want.
Hi Paul and Lucas. You're both right. Because of Rise's responsive nature, the content shifts to fit the device size and orientation. Check out this information from our best practices article:
That said, thanks for telling us what would work best for you! I'll share your insight with our team.
I agree. It's been quite a frustration to go in and out of Rise to edit images. A simple crop functionality or even focal points to assign a specific area of the image for display would go a long way.
Please let me know if the feature request makes the cut!
Best,
Alex D.
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I am also looking for an option to drag photos from the content library (or uploaded images) up or down in Rise to display specific details in an image. Am following the discussion here.
Has there been a solve for this? I am trying to use the text on image feature in Rise and am picking photos from the content library. Several photos are cropped oddly with people's heads cropped off. I'd love to be able to move the photo down so the heads show in the image (similar to the crop feature in PPT). It's getting rather frustrating that every image that I select is cropped oddly (automatically) and I haven't been able to find a solve for it.
Help!
Hey April,
We're working on built-in cropping and image editing tools in Rise 360 to help you create the perfect picture. We'll let you know when that feature arrives!
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