Blending Modes
Introducing Blending Modes to the Ceros Studio. Blending Modes change the way a blend layer reacts with a base layer beneath it.
How it works:
Blending Modes work with JPG, PNG, and GIF files. They do not currently work with SVGs and shapes and are not supported by IE11. The “Blending Mode” dropdown is in the inspector panel above the image effects and has the following options:
- Darken: Checks the luminance values in each RGB channel and selects either the blend or base color (whichever is darker) as the output color. Pixels that are darker than the blend color are unchanged, while lighter pixels are replaced.
- Multiply: Checks the color information for each RGB channel and multiplies the base color by the blend color, always resulting in a darker color.
- Color Burn: Checks the color information for each RGB channel, darkening the base color by increasing the contrast between the base and blend color.
- Lighten: Checks the color information for each RGB channel and selects either the blend or base color, whichever is lighter, as the output color. Pixels that are lighter than the blend color are unchanged, while darker pixels are replaced.
- Screen: Checks the color information for each RGB channel and multiplies the inverse of the blend and base colors, always resulting in a lighter color.
- Color Dodge: Checks the color information for each RGB channel and brightens the base color to reflect the blend color by decreasing contrast between the two.
- Overlay: Screens or multiplies the color, depending on the base color. Colors will overlay existing pixels and preserve the highlights and shadows of the image’s base color. Overlay does not replace the base color, but instead mixes the base with the blend color to reflect the lightness or darkness of the base color.
- Soft Light: Darkens or lightens the base layer’s colors, depending on the selected blend color, similar to applying a diffused spotlight on the asset.
- Hard Light: Screens or multiplies the base layer’s colors, depending on the selected blend color, similar to applying a direct spotlight on the asset.
- Difference: Checks the color information in each RGB channel and will subtract either the base color from the blend color or the blend color from the base color, depending on which color’s brightness is higher; Difference cannot result in negative values.
- Exclusion: Similar to Difference mode, but with a lower contrast. Lighter blending inverts the base color values whereas darker blending produces no change.
General Studio Updates
- We fixed a bug affecting On Hide entry effect. If a user added an On Hide entry effect to an object in the studio, the object would never appear unless you subsequently hid the object to have it animate in and then be hidden. This has been fixed so that if a user added an On Hide entry effect, the object will be visible until the object is hidden, triggering the animation.
- Users can now update their default experiences for Vanity domains without requesting assistance from the Support team.
- Users reported seeing issues with object selection and editing text in Studio. If text was in a group, attempting to double-click to edit a text box, the group the text was in would become highlighted in the Layers panel and the cursor would change as though it were editing text. You would then need double-click again to select the text, then double-click a third time to edit the text. This would appear to the user that they were editing the group itself as if it were text. This has been updated.
New Password Standards
We are strengthening our Password Standards to a 10-character minimum. This can be a combination of upper/lowercase, numbers, and special characters, but excludes the use of emojis in your password.
We are committing to this change in order to future proof our password security requirements and meet enterprise security expectations.
Beginning on March 28th, Ceros users will be prompted to reset their passwords upon their next visit to admin.ceros.com.
If you are a MarkUp user and use the same email for your MarkUp account as you do your Ceros account, you will have two options:
- Log in to Ceros using your MarkUp password. MarkUp already requires the strengthened security standards and your Ceros and MarkUp accounts will already be linked.
- Follow the instructions to reset your Ceros password to a new 10 character minimum password. When you reset your password in Ceros, your Markup password will also be reset to that same password.
Note: If your account is currently using SSO, you will not need to reset your password.
Pen Tool
Draw your own shapes! Give them colors and shadows! Make a gradient-colored cat entirely within Ceros! You are now able to draw your own custom shapes using the new pen tool and are not limited to the four shapes and lines that Ceros offers today.
The Pen Tool now takes the place of the Line Tool in the toolbar, and the Line Tool is now located in the Shape Toolbar dropdown.
Creating and editing the control points of a custom shape behaves exactly the same as creating and editing the control points of a custom hotspot does today.
When a custom shape's path is closed, the designer can set the following properties on it and see them reflected on the canvas and in Preview mode:
- Color/Gradient
- Stroke
- Opacity
- Shadow
Custom shapes otherwise support all properties that other shapes do and creators have the ability to apply interactions and animations on custom shapes.
General Studio Updates
We fixed a bug in which the Hotspot path edge detection did not work properly when inside of a rotated group.
We fixed a bug in which some Inspector Panel input fields did not support decimals. The following fields now support decimals:
- Animation delay (on view and on hide)
- Animation duration (on view and on hide)
- Synced object width
- Synced object height
- On view interactions delay
Skip to Main Content
For those using assistive technology, constantly having to tab through headers or navigation to get to the main content below can be slow and tedious. Skip to main content allows this audience to jump directly to the core of your experience instantly, with no need for the creator to build out any interactions.
Simply define the main area of your content using our HTML sections feature - from there, we’ll automatically create a hidden link that only appears to screen readers and keyboard users (once they hit the tab button) which allows them to instantly jump right to it. You can also customize the link text via the Accessibility tab in your Experience Settings.
Category: Improved Navigation
Note: This feature is in development and currently only available to members of the Accessibility Working Group. To receive early access and provide feedback, please ask your CSM about joining.