Help with text over image

[Mordechai Nir]

Hello,

I want to put the text over image so I can see the text, what do I need to do?

Thanks

logo without. name.afphoto

[Old Bruce]

Get rid of the zero pixel Gaussian blur on every single layer for a start. Then get rid of the Black Colour Overlay on the Text layer. Put the blend modes to Normal. Choose some colours for the Shield and a different colour for the text.

[Mordechai Nir]

@Old Bruce but will the colors of the logo stay the same, I need all the colors and the look of the logo to stay the same. I just want the writing to go over the logo 

[Old Bruce]

Toss an outline on the letters, use two or three points and white for the colour.

[Mordechai Nir]

@Old BruceThe logo is black, that does not solve the problem. I took away all the Gaussian blur, but nothing changed.If you can either show a video of   how to do it or to upload a copy with the edits, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks 

[Old Bruce]

I have no idea what it is you are actually wanting. I do not understand your statements:

    "I want to put the text over image so I can see the text, what do I need to do?"

    "...will the colors of the logo stay the same, I need all the colors and the look of the logo to stay the same. "

Black on Black? I do not see any colours in your file so there is no problem with them being the same, black.

The text is on top of the Logo. 

I assume the crest/shield is what you are calling the logo, there is only black on black with some white for the centre.

Are you wanting to scale the text so it fits inside the Shield?

[Mordechai Nir]

@Old Bruce Nope! Sorry for the confusion but I am wanting the text of #dontsweatit, to go over the logo(shield) so it can be read clearly, I want it to blend. on top, like opaque. Makes sense?

[Old Bruce]

You will need a white outline, go to View > Studio > Character and then set it like so. You have to have the text chosen with the text caret for the changes to take place. Also I would use a different font for this sort of work. Some bold San Serif works best because of the contrast. The words stand out better. 

24 minutes ago, Mordechai Nir said:

I want it to blend. on top, like opaque. Makes sense?

Have to be honest, I don't understand what you mean by on top do you mean the tops of the letters? Like the cross piece of the t? Or the top half of the design?

I should point out that the original you posted has the letters opaque. As does the screenshot.

bruce version.afphoto

 

[Mordechai Nir]

@Old Bruce When I try to open up the file it gives me an error and says, The file version is not supported by this version of Affinity. Can you send it  as a older version of Affinty.

Thanks

[Old Bruce]

bruce version older.afphoto

[Ron P.]

By Over, do you mean Above, like this?

I put a white outline on the text and logo. So I needed to put it on a black background to the white outline would be visible.

logo without. name2.afphoto

[Ron P.]

Here's one more attempt. Like the others, I don't know what you mean by the text Over the logo. The way you had it, with the text stacked on top of the logo looked like a jumbled mess. I just don't know of many other ways to interpret and construct it.

logo without. name3.afphoto

[Mordechai Nir]

@Ron P. I don’t want it above, I want it on a 45 degree across the logo, I want it going over the logo. If you can do that I would appreciate it and send the file in a older Affinity version please 

thanks 

[carl123]

Nobody knows what you want!

You need to be more clear

Is it something like this?

 

[Alfred]

There’s an extra space between ‘SWEAT’ and ‘IT’ but if it’s really meant to be a hashtag the whole thing should be in ‘CamelCase’ without spaces or punctuation: #DontSweatIt

[Ron P.]

5 hours ago, Mordechai Nir said:

@Ron P. I don’t want it above, I want it on a 45 degree across the logo, I want it going over the logo. If you can do that I would appreciate it and send the file in a older Affinity version please 

thanks 

I've spent about 2hrs trying to figure out how to make your design work. For me, stacking the text above the shield without some real complex designing simply is not going to look good at all. I've tried using just outline without fill on the text, clipping the text to the shield and vice-versa. I've tried reducing opacity, using blend ranges, about all the blend modes, just not happening.

Again we really don't know what you're design is suppose to look like. IF the others like Alfred, Carl, and Old Bruce, don't know, I certainly do not. Those people have waaaay more expertise and experience than I. I've never designed anything professionally. Besides, I don't have any older version installed now, and don't have the time go reinstall one. Maybe you need to update your version. One final note, it seems like you're wanting something that really requires Designer, not Photo.

Sorry I can't be of any further help.

[lacerto]

My guess:

(That is, a slight color difference to keep the text on top, and slight outer shadow fx to blur the text a bit but still keeping as text when exporting to e.g. PDF.)

[Mordechai Nir]

@carl123 what you did is right, but without the fill. It’s called superimposed. Can you do that 

[Mordechai Nir]

I just want the text of don’t sweat to go go over the log and for it to be superimposed. Meaning that the parts that have the dontsweat  words going over the logo will be erased so it looks clear.

Thanks 

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, Mordechai Nir said:

@carl123 what you did is right, but without the fill.

If you omit the fill you’ll get something like @Lagarto’s example (but without the colour difference and outer shadow to keep the overlaid text separate from the ‘M’ in the shield).

2 minutes ago, Mordechai Nir said:

I just want the text of don’t sweat to go go over the log and for it to be superimposed. Meaning that the parts that have the dontsweat  words going over the logo will be erased so it looks clear.

‘Superimposed’ just means ‘placed on top’. Do you perhaps want the added text to have an outline but no fill?

[Mordechai Nir]

@AlfredI want the text of dont sweat it to be on top of the logo, so it can be read clearly is that possible?

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, Mordechai Nir said:

@AlfredI want the text of dont sweat it to be on top of the logo, so it can be read clearly is that possible?

The solution posted by @carl123 achieves that, but the added text wouldn’t be legible without the background fill.

[G13RL]

Maybe something like this?

[NotMyFault]

Or this?
 

added white and black stroke (fx outer shadow) to make txt readable 

You need some kind of color / lightness contrast to make it readable.

Mouse based UIs use the samte trick (add stroke in contrasting color, or both add black and  white stroke to be on the safe side for all possible backgrounds)

[wonderings]

OldBruce had it right way back, if you have your text and logo the same colour there are few ways of making it stand out. The clearest and easiest way to read it is putting a white stroke around the text. You could put a white drop shadow behind but that is not going to be as clear and easy to read which is what you would want for something like this. 

There is no opacity for a black that will stand out when it is going on top of black. Really not sure why you are making this that difficult with black on black when you could use colour to really have it stand out. At very least you could go with a gray to stand out as well. Your file is not 100% K so this is not something you are trying to accomplish for 1 colour printing.