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Text that changes colour depending on background colour?

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steveyraff
2014-03-06 15:44:27 UTC (about 10 years ago)
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Text that changes colour depending on background colour?

Hey guys.

I am designing a product.

The product is a small aluminium box, painted white. On this box, there is a black graphic of a bat. Scrawled across this graphic, will be the product name.

To see the product name - the text needs to be coloured BLACK on the parts where it is over the white background, but it needs to be coloured WHITE on the parts where it is over the black graphic.

I hope this makes sense?

I have no idea how to do this sort of intelligent coloration, so some help is much welcomed.

Many thanks, Steve.

Pat David
2014-03-06 16:04:01 UTC (about 10 years ago)

Text that changes colour depending on background colour?

I'm assuming you'll have two layers. The bottom layer is the black graphic of a bat. The top layer is your text.

Make sure your text color is white. Then just change the layer blending mode of the top (text) layer to "Difference".

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:44 AM, steveyraff wrote:

Hey guys.

I am designing a product.

The product is a small aluminium box, painted white. On this box, there is a
black graphic of a bat. Scrawled across this graphic, will be the product name.

To see the product name - the text needs to be coloured BLACK on the parts where
it is over the white background, but it needs to be coloured WHITE on the parts
where it is over the black graphic.

I hope this makes sense?

I have no idea how to do this sort of intelligent coloration, so some help is
much welcomed.

Many thanks,
Steve.

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steveyraff
2014-03-06 17:43:55 UTC (about 10 years ago)
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Text that changes colour depending on background colour?

I'm assuming you'll have two layers. The bottom layer is the black graphic
of a bat. The top layer is your text.

Make sure your text color is white. Then just change the layer blending
mode of the top (text) layer to "Difference".

Brilliant - thanks !