Basics of Creating a Scroll Kit Narrative
With Scroll Kit, you can create multimedia works suitable for long-form narratives.
It's easy to drag and drop elements to create interesting effects. Your project will
have a unique Scroll Kit URL, so you can share your project widely (or you canexport the code).

Sign up

Go to www.scrollkit.com and click on Signup in the upper right-hand corner. Enter
your information and click Sign Up.

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Edit your sample scrollScroll Kit starts you out with a sample scroll. (Scroll is what Scroll Kit calls aproject.) Start by double-clicking on the text. You'll see you can edit it and change
the font, color, and formatting. If you drag the blue frame, you'll see that you canmove the text around on the scroll.
Other elements on your scroll work similarly. You can click and drag images, text,
and other objects, and change their size and position.
You may find it helpful to expand your browser's window horizontally, because
otherwise buttons on the Scroll Kit toolbar will stack on top of each other.

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Enter some information about your new scroll

You can't change your scroll's URL (yet), but you can give it a name anddescription to allow search engines to find it more easily. You can also make yourscroll public or private.

Save often

Scroll Kit doesn't really allow you to undo or revert changes unless you save aversion by pressing Done. So please get in the habit of clicking Done often to saveyour changes. (Once you've saved, you can click on the pencil icon to go back to
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editing your scroll.)Work with layers.

Just as in Photoshop, Scroll Kit organizes elements in layers; one object can sit on
top of another object. To see the layers, click on the layers button (1). In the layers
window that pops up, drag the layer you'd like to place on top to the top of your list(2).

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Change your background

With Scroll Kit, your background can be a solid color, an image, or even a video.
You can also tile your background images and change their transparency.

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Add an image

Adding an image to Scroll Kit is not unlike adding photos to Facebook. Click on thepicture icon and then choose a file from your computer, add one from the web, orchoose from the options that Scroll Kit has pre-loaded. Once you've selected animage, you can drag it around and change the size until you're happy with itsplacement.

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Change the transparency of an element

To make an element translucent, click on the paint bucket, and then use thetransparency slider.

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Draw!

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Click on the pencil icon to draw freehand on
your scroll. Click on the color swatch to the right of the pencil to change the color
you draw in. (I don't know of a way to change the color of your drawing once
you've already drawn it.)`

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Add video

You can add video to your scroll by clicking on the LEGO block (the Add-Onsbutton) and selecting YouTube. (You can add other kinds of videos by grabbing theiFrame embed code; ask me how.) Once you've selected YouTube, place therectangular frame where you'd like your video to appear and then click Submit.

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Add length to your scroll

Each section of your scroll is called a strip. Add length to your scroll by either
adding a new strip or extending your current strip's length. Extend the strip if you
want to keep the background and make your additional material continuous withthe earlier strip; otherwise, you can change moods and mark divisions by adding a
different strip. If you have a lot of text to place (and you probably will), you may
want to add a text strip. Text strips won't be resized on mobile devices, and you
can only drop a few objects on them.

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Get rid of a strip

You can delete an entire strip by hovering over the translucent bar on the left handside. An x should appear. Click on the x to delete your strip.

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See how the scroll will look on your phone

One of the benefits of Scroll Kit is that your narratives will look good on smaller
devices, like phones. To see how your scroll will look on a mobile device, click
Done and then click on the iPhone icon.

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You built a scroll!

Congrats! Share your scroll by sending the URL to your friends.

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