Where I am now: I am still building my project off the Broken CoWorker design. I enjoyed many of the templates that were offered, but I am contemplating creating my own. My wife is a photographer, so I plan to have her take a few pictures of a principal and teacher that I know. This is the current idea, but I am afraid it may be a little time consuming. There was a template that I liked from ELearningBrothers "circle spider graph" that I will try to find a free download of. If not, I don't think it will be very difficult to replicate.
I find myself wanting perfection with my project... perfect design, perfect instruction. This is something that I plan to send to schools across the country as an introduction to my company. It needs to make a good impression.
Go for it Brooks! I want to encourage to go for perfection on your project. I like the way the storyline files are hosted. When you make revisions you can just overwrite the old files with new without worrying about updating links that you have shared with prospective users. I think the time you and your wife will spend taking pictures of people you know to use as characters in your project is much better than the expensive stock pictures available through storyline. Think about taking different poses and having the subjects show different emotions. You may not plan to use them now, but you would have them later on if your project took a different direction. If you were able to take the pictures with an "infinite white" background or any solid background you could easily remove the background in photoshop and have some really nice custom characters. I created a custom character for my presentation and the only difficulty that I've had is that you can not import custom characters into storyline. I searched for the character files in the storyline program files and read a few posts about other users trying to do the same thing with no success. I ended just placing my character like I would any photo. I'm looking forward to seeing your final product.
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