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• • June 8, 2016 at 10:47 am #85545
    Andy Mcgroarty

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    Hi there

    I know this is really simple, but i can’t seem to get my head round how to do it.

    So, i have an image, then on top a solid colour with the transparency down a bit so you can see the image below. What i would like to do is have type, but instead of the type being a certain colour i would like the image below to be the colour of the words, if that make sense? Something like the top of this website: https://elegantthemes.com/preview/Divi/cafe/ where ‘divi cafe’ are the words allowing the image to pop through.

    I hope i’m making sense, thank you.

  • June 8, 2016 at 12:15 pm #85550
    Matt Isaac

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    I was thinking “Set the blending mode to multiply and the text to white.” but that let darker colors of the underlying image show through the solid color. If you don’t have dark colors in the background image this may work for you. What i would suggest would be to cut the text out of the colored rectangle. This will make the text a bit harder to edit but would give you the result you’re looking for.

    1. Create a colored rectangle. (not a text box.)
    2. Create a text box with the text styled and positioned as you want it to be over the colored rectangle. (You can change the color of the text to help position the text if you need to.)
    3. With the text selected click Type>>Create Outlines
    • For whatever reason I have found that if you do this with multi-line text then creating outlines will group each line together, Thus making the final step not work properly. If you have multiple lines of text to be cut, after you create the outlines, you will want to switch to the direct selection tool and then back to the regular selection tool. (I’m not sure why this happens but it does.) Though if you only have a single line of text you can skip this tool switch.
    4. with the outlines still selected Shift+click the colored rectangle to select both objects.
    5. Use the pathfinders option “Subtract”

    After following these steps you will have your colored rectanlge with the text cut out and you can then set the opacity of the box to let as much of the background image through as you want.

    I hope this helped without causing too much confusion for you.

    • June 9, 2016 at 4:50 am #85586
      Andy Mcgroarty

      Member

      Thank you Skemicle, i’ll give this a try and let you know how i get on.

    • June 9, 2016 at 1:00 pm #85616
      Andy Mcgroarty

      Member

      Thanks Skemicle! That worked a treat! Although i had to extract the text out of the text box first in order for it to work properly, other wise it just made a cut out of the shape of the text box. But that is excellent! Job done! Thanks again!

  • June 9, 2016 at 1:28 pm #85617
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Is it possible to create outlines with logos? or just text?

    • June 9, 2016 at 6:36 pm #85628
      Matt Isaac

      Participant

      Step3 creating the outlines should have taken away the text box when you did it leaving only the text as shapes. It’s weird that it didn’t. But you can use the same method with different shapes. Just skip step 3.

  • June 10, 2016 at 12:16 pm #85641
    Ari Singer

    Member

    You don’t have to convert the text to outlines. See these articles:

    https://creativepro.com/creating-see-through-text.php

    https://creativepro.com/turn-any-object-into-a-transparency-mask.php

    • June 10, 2016 at 12:42 pm #85644
      Andy Mcgroarty

      Member

      Perfect Ari! thank you!

    • June 10, 2016 at 1:54 pm #85646
      Matt Isaac

      Participant

      There you go, coming in and improving upon my ideas again Ari. (I’m glad you do, i get to learn more and become a better InDesigner.) Thanks; that works a lot better than my solution. The text in this case also remains editable so no need for redoing the whole thing if you want to change fonts or anything.

    • June 10, 2016 at 2:01 pm #85647
      Ari Singer

      Member

      I do it on purpose, to bring you down… ;) I know most of these tricks from InDesign magazine. I’ve read most of the back issues and gained a lot of knowledge in the process.

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