Macromedia Fireworks :: How to create transparent watermarks with fireworks?


	How to create transparent watermarks with fireworks? I'm trying to create a watermark for some photos using Fireworks and I can't figure out how to make the text transparent/fadded so that you can see the photo through them. Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. Select the item you want to make translucent, and then change the opacity slider. The opacity control is in the property inspector, on the right hand side to the left of the blend mode, which by default is set to "normal". -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- OysterBay_Estates wrote: > I'm trying to create a watermark for some photos using Fireworks and I can't > figure out how to make the text transparent/fadded so that you can see the > photo through them. > Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. Type the text, and then lower the opacity of the text. You can also experiment with blend modes like Overlay. -- Linda Rathgeber [PVII] Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.projectseven.com Fireworks Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/fireworks/ CSS Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/css/ http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- A little more information. . I've using Gallery2 so I need to create the watermark as a standalone image and then use Galler2's Apply Watermark function to merge it with the photos. Here's a sample of one I did that's really bad: http://www.wakulla.com/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,198/?g2_itemId=633&... 74174df%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F/ -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- OysterBay_Estates wrote: > A little more information. . > I've using Gallery2 so I need to create the watermark as a standalone image > and then use Galler2's Apply Watermark function to merge it with the photos. > Here's a sample of one I did that's really bad: > http://www.wakulla.com/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,198/?g2_itemId=633&... > 74174df%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F/ http://www.wakulla.com/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,198/?g2_itemId=633&... What's Gallery 2, and how does the apply watermark function work? -- Linda Rathgeber [PVII] Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.projectseven.com Fireworks Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/fireworks/ CSS Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/css/ http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Figured it out. I was using the export wizard. I lowered the opacity and saved the watermark as a png 24, uploaded it to Gallery2 and it looks fine. Thanks -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- [q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Newsgroup User[/b][/b][/i] OysterBay_Estates wrote: > What's Gallery 2, and how does the apply watermark function work? -- Linda Rathgeber [PVII] Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.projectseven.com Fireworks Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/fireworks/ CSS Newsgroup: news://forums.projectseven.com/css/ http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -------------------------------------------------------------- [/q] Gallery2 is an opensource photo gallery package: http://gallery.menalto.com/ . There's a plugin for it that applies watermarks to albums and subalbums. For example, if there were 10 different photographers contributing photos, each could have their own gallery with their own watermarks sharing the same domain/Db.