Effects: Creating Custom Effects in Flash and Using in Captivate.

In the previous post we learnt how to create triggered effects in Captivate. In this post we will focus on custom effects. One of the cool feature in Captivate 5 is you can create custom effects (which are not present in captivate by default) in Flash and import it in Captivate. Following Demo shows how to create vibrate effect (similar effect when you type wrong password in Mac log-in screen). Basic Steps are: 1) Create desired effects in Flash using […]

Introducing effects in Captivate

Creating interactive animations using Effects In the previous post we learnt how to effectively use timing effects. In this post we will focus on triggered effects. It’s a common scenario to attract attention to a specific item on the slide (say by zooming in the item) on some learner interaction (say a button click). Triggered effects let you achieve this. Select any interactive item of your interest (say button) & chose “Apply Effect” on the relevant event (say “On Success”) […]

Photoshop round-tripping in Captivate 5: Quicker & powerful way to work with images.

One of the exciting features of eLearning Suite 2 is Photoshop round tripping with Captivate. You can not only import Photoshop layers but also edit the source Photoshop document from Captivate (eLS 2.0). The new workflow provides ways to easily maintain the imported PS content in sync with the source document. Captivate detects changes and updates the affected layers automatically. You can now import the Photoshop document once and modify as many times as required without the bother of importing […]