My "text on busy background" tip
Mar 27, 2011 18:17:21 GMT -5
Post by susy on Mar 27, 2011 18:17:21 GMT -5
I just wanted to leave my tip on how to get small text to show on a busy background.
If you just want your background to be subtle, like a photo, then try my tip, or, you might have a better solution.
Diane, I hope you don't mind if I use a snippet of your background for the example and show what adding a little bit of glow(Eyecandy3) to your text can do to it. It will pop right out.
Here's what I did with Diane's pink floral background and you'll see the difference.
First I used black text......sometimes white works too but on this I found that black did. You just have to play with the color of your text and glow. Usually black or white text is the way to go.
Here are the Eye Candy "glow" settings that I use for mine and I changed it to a pink that was in that background.
I just thought I would show the difference and I added a © to the little snippet cause I did use Diane's background.
I use this method all the time with credits on things.
You can use the same color of your image, add a 1/1/100/1/black drop shadow first and then add a glow and your credit stands right out but is the same color as the background.......just like "hidden in plain site".
Edited to tell what glow I used.
If you just want your background to be subtle, like a photo, then try my tip, or, you might have a better solution.
Diane, I hope you don't mind if I use a snippet of your background for the example and show what adding a little bit of glow(Eyecandy3) to your text can do to it. It will pop right out.
Here's what I did with Diane's pink floral background and you'll see the difference.
First I used black text......sometimes white works too but on this I found that black did. You just have to play with the color of your text and glow. Usually black or white text is the way to go.
Here are the Eye Candy "glow" settings that I use for mine and I changed it to a pink that was in that background.
I just thought I would show the difference and I added a © to the little snippet cause I did use Diane's background.
I use this method all the time with credits on things.
You can use the same color of your image, add a 1/1/100/1/black drop shadow first and then add a glow and your credit stands right out but is the same color as the background.......just like "hidden in plain site".
Edited to tell what glow I used.
