Now that you've started your takeTheTrain project, your next task is to apply a theme. The theme determines the look of the Captivate project. It brings a set of styles and a set of predefined Master Slides to use and reuse throughout your course development.
Captivate includes many predefined themes that you can apply to your projects. While these themes are a great way to jump-start your next project, you will probably design and develop your own customized themes. This is what we have done for this project. Later in this book, you will learn how the custom theme we are using was made. But for now, let's focus on applying it to the project:
- With the new project open, click the Themes icon on the toolbar.
- Click the Browse link in the bottom-left corner of the theme chooser.
- In the Chapter02 folder of the exercise files, select the takeTheTrain_Theme.cptm file. (Note that a theme uses a .cptm file extension, while a regular Captivate project...