If the dimensions aren’t in pixels, use the menu next to “Dimensions:” to set it to pixels.Since I have access to Photoshop to Zoomify my image, I make sure to click on “Show me How.” Following their instructions, I proceed: Working in Chrome with a big screen, I open two windows-one for working in and one for following the StoryMap instructions.
I save my image as “Loy-Virgins-Rogue” and I put it in a new folder called “StoryMap-Virgins” on my desktop.
#Knight lab storymap only shows first tile of zoomify how to#
If your image isn’t big enough (and I’m not sure how big it has to be, but probably at least 1000 pixels), then you’ll need to Google around to learn how to make it bigger.
And indeed, with an hour or two, I had a reply to my email inquiry about what was going wrong for the students. You’ll be amazed by how responsive and helpful the people in the DH community can be. Whenever you’re working with open source tools, it’s really important to contact the developers and Google around to get support from other people who have played with the tool. When students reported trouble-and a media tutor couldn’t solve the problem-the first thing I did was go to Knight Lab’s help page. Students were having trouble making gigapixel StoryMaps for images, and as the makers of this cool tool admit, “the gigapixel feature of StoryMap is not as easy to use as most of our other tools because it requires hosting a folder of images on a web server.” Fortunately, because we have Davidson Domains, you can host a folder of images on a web server-right in your own domain.
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