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in Open Office I want to use a grphic as a watermark

Asked by John Wilson

In Open Office I want to use a graphic (.jpeg) as a watermark but the colours are too strong.
Is there a way of fading the colours so that I can then have readable text on top?
Haven't seen anything to help in GIMP or Fspot but then others know these programmes much better than I

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://wolfhalton.info/2009/01/11/custom-watermark-in-openofficeorg/

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#2

Thank you for your helpful reply.
My problem is not inserting the .jpeg but in manipulating it "you must make the colours light enough that they do not interfere with the reader's comprehension of the text."

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François Tissandier (baloo) said : 		#3

JPEG has no transparency parameter. So a pixel has a color, and it will hide what is behind. Unless Openoffice does it own thing to make the image transparent, it won't work.

Did you try with a PNG? A PNG image can have transparency, it's worth trying. Create the image in GIMP, then set the opacity of the layer to 50% by instance. Save in PNG. Try in Openoffice.

I never tried, but that's how I would try it first.

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#4

In GIMP I have saved the image as a .png but I haven't found a way to decrease the opacity.
Any suggestions?

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Best François Tissandier (baloo) said : 		#5

In Gimp, in the Layers window, there is a slider for opacity. Set it to anything you want, then save in PNG.

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#6

Thank you for your help. Now that I have opened the Layers, Channels & Path window I have found the slider!

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#7

Thanks François Tissandier, that solved my question.

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François Tissandier (baloo) said : 		#8

Cool ! Welcome !