Themes in Captivate

Overview

Themes help your project view better with coordinated colors, fonts, slide backgrounds, and appearance for UI components. When you create a project, a default theme is applied.

Launch the Theme property panel

Select Project Properties in the right toolbar to launch the Theme panel.

In the panel, you can:

• View the preview of the theme: Mouse over the preview area to view the theme's preview.
• Change the theme: Select Change Theme to select a theme from the list of themes available. Captivate picks the themes from Assets. The imported themes are first cached in Assets and then launched.
  
• Edit a theme: Select Edit Theme to launch the Theme editor. More about it in the next section.
• Import a theme: Select the + icon to import a theme. Select a theme on your computer and import it.
• View a color palette: View the color of the current theme. The palette contains nine colors in the band.

Edit a theme

Select Edit Theme in the Theme Property panel. In the Theme Editor that follows, you can use the following workflows:

Color palette

In the Color Palette panel, you can change the project's theme colors, color configuration, color for various objects, and many more.

Theme colors are a group of colors with associated variables and are reused across preset properties within the theme.​ The colors are listed in each color palette in a group of nine colors. You can update these colors in the editor.

Font palette

In the Font palette panel, you can change the default text properties of a project. You can also change the default text.

The Font palette loads with the Body preset of the first font pack selected by default. You can change the properties of the text in the right panel. Moreover, you can update a font across presets wherever a preset is used. View Text in Adobe Captivate for more information.

Image

In the Image panel, change the style, or add a border and shadow to an image style. The changes will them reflect in all your projects.

The properties that make up an image preset are:

• Enabling or disabling border​
• Border sub-properties​
• Enabling or disabling shadow​
• Shadow sub-properties​

You can also change:

• Intensity​: Change the intensity only for colorize and overlay filters.
  
• Color Style: solid, linear Gradient, and Radial Gradient​

Slide background

You can change a slide's background colors and other properties in this panel. You can then use the new colors for your projects.

Content Section

Select the Solid color picker to set the to fill a content block. You can enable or disable the fill from a Design option.

UI Components

In this panel, you can change the appearance of the various User Interface components, such as buttons, drop-downs, checkboxes, and so on.

Enable the Flow to all states toggle to ensure that whatever changes to a theme you've applied to the property apply to the same property in other states.

Parts of a UI Component

A UI component consists of a few style and font properties for a text-related component.

There are a few state-specific properties:

• Primary color
• Shadow color
• Border color
• Text color
• Font family

Set any theme as default

After changing the properties of a theme, you can set the theme as default, and apply the theme to the project. If you create another project, the default theme applies to the project.

For any project that you create and insert a new slide, the default theme applies to the project.

Reset project theme

Captivate enables you to update presets for individual objects, or perform an overall project-level reset to maintain uniformity. Resetting the entire project removes object-level overrides and updates to the new theme defaults from the theme editor.

Reset entire PROJECT THEME

You can perform a project-level reset if you want to reset all visual changes made on various slides and maintain uniformity across the project. ​ This will change all visual modifications to objects in the project to preset properties from the new theme or updated preset properties in the existing theme.

You can also enable the Reset entire project theme inside the Change Theme panel.

To recap, resetting the project theme in its entirety enables you to undo all prior visual modifications to objects and establish a new project-wide theme, ensuring consistency throughout. Any new additions will now adhere to the updated theme.

Update a preset

You have the option to make a visual alteration to an object and save it as a preset. Simply choose the Update Preset icon, which becomes visible only after you have made a visual adjustment to the object. This action will update the theme preset for that specific object, promoting consistency across the entire project. Any new slides featuring that object will automatically adopt the updated preset.

Reset theme for interactive components

Interactive components have two types of visual presets, text, and shape presets. Resetting the entire project will reset visual changes made to interactive components to their design option selected.

Delete a theme

What's next

After saving all your changes, it's time you export the theme, so that you can reuse the theme for your projects.

To export a theme, on the Theme screen, select Export. Save the theme on your computer as a .cpth file.

You can also import a theme in the Theme editor and change its properties. After changing the properties, you can export the theme, and also apply the theme from the Theme editor.