Posted: 2006-02-19T17:06:11-07:00
Fisrt just changing the specific color WILL NOT WORK!
This will not take into account that the image contains anti-aliased pixels
that is various shades of grey along the edges of the text to make it look smoother without staircase 'jaggies'.
A black and white image like this should be thought of as a mask for
other images, weither they are transparent, a solid color, a tile, or a photo.
To use it in this way see Channels and Masks, in IM examples
Using Masks with Images http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... els/#masks
This show the three basic ways masks are used to pick foreground and background colros from different sources (images).
This will not take into account that the image contains anti-aliased pixels
that is various shades of grey along the edges of the text to make it look smoother without staircase 'jaggies'.
A black and white image like this should be thought of as a mask for
other images, weither they are transparent, a solid color, a tile, or a photo.
To use it in this way see Channels and Masks, in IM examples
Using Masks with Images http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... els/#masks
This show the three basic ways masks are used to pick foreground and background colros from different sources (images).