PaulWilliamson Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Hi, I want to use a picture as a background on a webpage but I want to be able to read text that is over it. I guess I want to fade the picture a bit to make this possible. How would I do this? I have attached a sample pic I posted on another thread. Thanks! -paulw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityJules Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 That's a 'how long is a piece of string' question. How much text? What colour? How big is the text to be? You can easily experiment with the text tools available. Quote Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. These are not my own words but I sure like this quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 11 minutes ago, PaulWilliamson said: I guess I want to fade the picture a bit to make this possible. How would I do this? One simple way would be to cover some or all of the picture with a rectangle that has a semitransparent fill applied. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 One quick and simple way to make the entire image paler is: Draw a rectangle over the top. Set the colour of the rectangle to white. Set the opacity of the rectangle layer to whatever you think looks right. You can then export the image in your required format, or choose Flatten from the Document menu to make the changes permanent and destructive. If you want to run text over the whole image, though, you're going to have a problem with the tonal range of the original. The fence, the trees and the front of the locomotive are all very dark, and if you make them pale enough for black text to be visible on top of them, the lighter areas like the sky and the ballast are going to become very bleached out. Cheers, H Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWilliamson Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 It worked! I used a light gray rectangle RGB(166,166,166) and the text shows up! It is a lot easier doing it this way instead of messing with background properties and gradients in Dreamweaver! Thanks! More fun stuff! -paulw Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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