Create my first Captivate project

Week 12 :

Create a blank project

So let’s get started by creating a blank project in Captivate.

• In the File menu, choose New Project > Blank Project.
• In the New Blank Project dialog, you can choose the dimensions for the project. Let’s use the default dimensions.
  Click OK.
  A new blank project is created with a blank slide.

Apply themes

Themes help your project look better with coordinated colors, well-planned layouts for slides, fonts, and effects. A default theme is applied to every project in Captivate.

Let’s apply a new theme to our project.

• Click Themes on the toolbar.
• In the drop-down list, hover the mouse pointer over each theme to view the name of the theme.
• Choose the Blank theme.
• Click OK to apply the theme to all the objects contained in the project.
  The Blank theme is applied to your project.

Note: At any point in your project, you can apply a new theme. Captivate will apply the effects of the theme to all the objects currently in your project. Now that we have our project set up with a theme of our choice, let’s add objects to the first slide of the project.

Add text captions to a slide

Our project must have a title. Let’s insert the title in the first slide.

Add a text caption to the first slide.

• Click Text on the toolbar and then choose Text Caption.
  The new text caption is placed on the slide. Also, the placeholder text is selected by default so you can enter the required text.
• In the text caption, enter the following text: LUNARSHPERE STUDIOS
• Click anywhere on the blank portion of the slide to exit the editing mode of the text box.
  When you hover the mouse pointer over the text box, the cursor turns into a hand.
• Click on the text caption and drag-and-drop it to the upper-left corner of the slide.

Add interactions to a slide

On the introductory slide, let’s add some interactivity to an object.

To do this, we will add some interaction to a button. When the user clicks the button, the presentation will advance to the next slide.

• Click Interactions on the toolbar and then choose Button.
  The new button is placed on the slide.
  You can make changes to the properties of a button, like its text and interactivity in the Properties Inspector.
• Click Properties in the right corner of the toolbar.
• In the Properties Inspector, go to the Style tab.
• Go to the Caption field and change the caption of the button to START.
• The default On Success action for this button is Go to the next slide.
  Let’s retain the default action.
• Select the button and drag-and-drop it to the lower-left corner of the slide.

Add images to a slide

The introductory slide of our project currently has a text caption and a button. But the slide is far from the finished product. So, let’s improve its look and feel by adding an image.

• Click Media on the toolbar and then choose Image.
  A dialog box is displayed that allows you to select the image file from your computer.
• Ensure that you have downloaded and extracted the zip file included with this course.
  In the extracted folder, navigate to the assets
• Choose the file intro_image_right and click Open.
  Note: To maintain the aspect ratio of the image, keep the Shift key pressed while you resize the image at the corners.
• Use the handles on the image object to resize the image so that it fits within the slide.
• Select the image and drag-and-drop it to the right side of the slide.
  The introductory slide is done for now.