Exporting Jigsaw to Articulate.

[K.Howard]

Hi 
I am very new to GIMP. I have followed a tutorial to create a jigsaw in GIMP. I have completed the jigsaw and now would like to export it into Articulate 360. 

My goal is that as the learners complete sections they uncover puzzle pieces and at the end of the course they get to complete the puzzle. Please can you advise how I export my jigsaw out of GIMP. Is there a particuar format I need to use?

Thank you 

Kerry

[rich2005]

Can you give a link to the tutorial you used.

You might have a long wait here for anyone who also uses Articulate 360 to come along.

However a search "Articulate 360 image formats" quickly comes up with:

https://community.articulate.com/series/...d-pictures
and
https://community.articulate.com/article...ed-to-know

In Gimp you Save in native .xcf format which keeps all layers, masks, selections etc or Export to a variety of image formats. From the link list you could use bmp , gif , jpg , png , tif

These all have various pros and cons see: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ImageFormats/

Reading between the lines, you probably need each jigsaw piece on a separate Gimp layer as a "Working Image" that you can go back to anytime, then those layers exported to individual images. Other than doing that manually there are plugins to automate the process.

You should search community.articulate.com Gimp is mentioned here:
https://community.articulate.com/series/...ning-tools
and jigsaw puzzles here:
https://community.articulate.com/discuss...saw-puzzle

[K.Howard]

Hi Rich
Thank you for your reply.
The tutorial I used was this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XWuaUFYEw

I have each puzzle piece on a separate layer as directed in the tutorial. I will review the sources you supplied and attempt to save and export as you suggest.

[rich2005]

That video is fair, if a bit laboured, using layer masks always good.

I kept going with the search and came across this: https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elear...animation/

Old, from 2008 and a flash animation. Since flash is often blocked and will 'die' at the end of the year anyway, I captured that and put it here https://youtu.be/YCcTJSRmiDM 4 and a half minutes

Interesting, it suggests the reverse of what you might expect. Keeps a whole image and overlays with 'blank' jigsaw tiles to gradually show the completed jigsaw.

How could you do that in Gimp 2.10 ? My first thoughts https://youtu.be/8MTr8i9jL4c 3 minutes There will be other ways. This does use an 'overlay' script you will not have. Can be provided if required.