by Kevin Siegel
I've been teaching Captivate for years. One of my favorite parts of any class is showing features of the software that even veteran developers of the program did not know were available. Case in point: during a recent class a student asked if it was possible to crop imported images directly within Captivate. She had been told that while you could resize images, you could not crop them. The answer to her question was a resounding yes. It's not only possible to crop images in Captivate, it's very easy.
In the picture below, my goal was to crop most of the pink bucket out of the image.
I right-clicked the image and chose Properties.
The Image Properties dialog box appeared. On the Image tab, I clicked the Crop button (located in the lower right corner of the dialog box).
A warning appeared foretelling the dangers of proceeding. I bravely clicked the Yes button.
The Resize/Crop Image dialog box appeared. I deselected Constrain proportions on the lower left of the dialog box (if I had left this option selected, I would have cropped more of the image than I wanted).
The final step was to drag the resizing handle in the lower left of the image up and to the right until most of the bucket was outside the boundary of the image.
After that, a few clicks on the OK button (one to close the Resize/Crop Image dialog box and another to close the Image Properties dialog box) sealed the deal.
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