Doodly Templates
What is a template?
There are two definitions for templates.
- Doodly Template: The first type of template is a predesigned doodle by Doodly creators for an easy to output doodle with very little work on your end. There are really excellent designed templates and some not so good ones.
- Personal Template: A project file that contains the main portions of what you want to display for clients. These are your template files. When using a self created template file, a few things are adjusted per client and a full doodle is created for each client and then saved as a different name using the save as feature.
You can find these on the main Doodly interface opening page. There is a tab that says Templates on it. Doodle creators have spent a lot of time to create these and make them interactive. These are a great place to start if you know nothing about Doodly or design concepts but want to get your hands wet. These are the perfect choice but don’t expect to know how to use the software unless you’ve watch either the SoloBoss Doodly Walkthrough or the Doodly provided basic tutorials.
Pros: You don’t have to do the lions share of the work!
Cons:
Undesired Effects: There may be items in there that you don’t want such as the type of music, assets that are in there, timing, pan and zoom effects. There are a lot of items that come into design concepts that may not be exactly what you want.
Lack of Instructions: For beginners that don’t have the concept of the Doodly software yet, they tend to be lost and the template is a little overwhelming. It is great to have all this done for us but now what do we do with the template?
Note: Template files are a little difficult to sort through in the Doodly interface because you can only see 1 1/5th rows of templates because of how the interface is designed. Unfortunately even using the trick I demonstrate in the video tutorial about increasing the viewable layers in Doodly will not work for this because the initial interface is a set width and height so it is not affected by other factors of the operating system.
Template Save Location
Doodly provided templates are stored directly in the My Projects folder.
Duplicating Templates
- Open the template.
- Give it a name.
- Make a change to allow the Save button to enable.
- Choose Save As and give it a new name. This will provided 2 of the same templates in the projects area.
