Watermark

[LJA]

I want to use a watermark that is only partially washedout. It is too dark
if not washed out and too light if washed out. Is it possible to vary the
amount of fading or washout? thank you

 

[John McGhie]

Yes. See the help topic " Edit a picture" for information.

A watermark can be simply a picture. If you prepare a picture with the
washout you want, you can then make the picture file your watermark.

Cheers

I want to use a watermark that is only partially washedout. It is too dark
if not washed out and too light if washed out. Is it possible to vary the
amount of fading or washout? thank you

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Not exactly....but first activate the header/footer. Then
double-clicking on the watermark picture should give you some sort of
Format dialog--click Picture and see if the options there help at all.

 

[LJA]

thanks so much for the reply. I tried to adjust the contrast and brightness
in the Picture and ended up with a grey (instead of white) background. Any
ideas on how to get the grey back to white? thanks!

 

[CyberTaz]

The white area is actually made up of white pixels, so when you adjust the
brightness & contrast they are affected just as are the "colored" pixels.
The result - as you see - is that they are no longer pure white.

I tend to think that the implication in an earlier reply was that your
graphics should be finalized in a graphics program *before* sticking them
into a _word processing_ file. But you do have one other possibility which
may or may not work depending on what type of image it is.

On the Picture toolbar as well as the Formatting Palette (when the picture
is selected) you'll find a Transparent Color tool. If it is "active" you can
click the tool then use it to click in the white area. That converts the
white pixels to transparent so that the paper color shows through & isn't
affected by brightness & contrast settings. It cannot, however, be used on
all images - only certain types.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

Does Word support transparency in graphics? I thought it didn't?

But you are correct: the poster needs to "washout" only the dark bits, not
the white bits. She will need a graphics program to do this properly.

Cheers

The white area is actually made up of white pixels, so when you adjust the
brightness & contrast they are affected just as are the "colored" pixels.
The result - as you see - is that they are no longer pure white.

I tend to think that the implication in an earlier reply was that your
graphics should be finalized in a graphics program *before* sticking them
into a _word processing_ file. But you do have one other possibility which
may or may not work depending on what type of image it is.

On the Picture toolbar as well as the Formatting Palette (when the picture
is selected) you'll find a Transparent Color tool. If it is "active" you can
click the tool then use it to click in the white area. That converts the
white pixels to transparent so that the paper color shows through & isn't
affected by brightness & contrast settings. It cannot, however, be used on
all images - only certain types.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[CyberTaz]

Well, John, as with so many other things in Word the answer is a definitive
"kinda" That's why I qualified my reply.

By the stricter definition transparency is not supported as it would be in a
graphics design or pro DTP program, but the tool I mentioned does allow for
designating *1* color in the image as transparent. The following is as
accurate as I've found so far:

"Note The Set Transparent Color option is available for bitmap (bitmap: A
picture made from a series of small dots, much like a piece of graph paper
with certain squares filled in to form shapes and lines. When stored as
files, bitmaps usually have the extension .bmp.) pictures that don't already
have transparency information. It's also available for some, but not all,
clip art (clip art: A single piece of ready-made art, often appearing as a
bitmap or a combination of drawn shapes.)."

Images which carry transparency (such as Photoshop images with clipping
paths/vector masks) do retain that transparency when properly inserted into
a doc. I believe, though, that if the image is *pasted* in that the
transparent area (background) is converted to white pixels.

The down-side of the Set Transparent Color tool is that *all* pixels in the
image that are the same brightness level as the one clicked will be rendered
transparent - including those within the main body of the image. IOW, not
just the surrounding white space. In some images that can be a problem -
especially if the unwanted background isn't pure white. The resulting effect
is that the subject can end up with holes in it.