How do i make text see thru

[clare]

I want my background picture to show thru the text, and i want the text the
have a smoked glass look, is this possible
clare

 

[Carrie]

I know how to make the text show through because I asked it here once,
click on fill (up top) then "no fill". I use this a lot because otherwise
the text box blocks something out or a part of it.

As for smoked glass, I'm not sure with Publisher if they have this effect.
I just tried it (and I'm still a newbie) I made a text box, wrote TEST on
it, made the font grey. Then clicked fill- effects and tried some of the
graduants which were in shades of grey. I came out with more of a metalic
(shiny) kind of pattern behind it. Which is actually nice to know about.

I think you are saying you want the text to have the smoked glass
effect and not the background/fill.

This might have to be done in something else like PhotoShop. But... I
really don't know, someone else can tell you more.

But, I just learned something new about fill effects, so glad you asked.

~ Carrie

 

[Carrie]

I want my background picture to show thru the text, and i want the text the
have a smoked glass look, is this possible
clare

So far nobody has answered about the smoked glass look. I think this might
be something you'd have to do in a program like Paint Shop Pro or PhotoShop
(which are the two I have and know a little more about)

I think not only do you want the background transparent, you also want
the text (letters) to be transparent, and look like smoked glass? I wonder
if there is a font you could find and download like that?

Otherwise it sounds like something you'd have to make in Paint Shop
Pro, Photoshop, etc. Make a text box and write what you want in it. I have a
font called "Basic" that is fat letters just outlined, (so see through) and
I might start with that, with one of the effects that resemples cut glass.
Then, select around the letters, and copy/paste onto a new transparent
background, make the size you want (though you can resize in Publisher) and
copy/paste. Or save as a gif (keep the transparency) and insert it as a
picture.

Before I learned about no fill to make the text BOXES transparent, I
would set up text on a transparent background elsewhere and copy/paste it
onto what I was doing in Publisher. But, the way I understand it you want
the actual letters to look like smoked glass and be transparent.

I'd try doing it the way I guessed, I like to learn, too. But, it's
11:30 PM already. Maybe tomorrow.

Hopefully if there's a way of doing what you want in Publisher someone who
knows how will say.

~ Carrie