Color Characteristics

I already told you in the previous lesson that we can format text with different text styles. The same applies for the shape. If you have a shape attached to your box, you can format it with a text style.

To change the color properties of text or a shape, click the “Color Properties” button in the tool bar.
This opens the “Color Properties” dialog box.

As you rightly remarked, in the image below, I have two tracks with text. The child is only a background made with the tool “Rectangle” (1).
And the top part is the text (2).

Whether the properties of a shape or color of a text change it does not matter, “the Color Properties dialog box” remains the same.

To change the color properties to adjust your course, select the text first, and then click the “Color Properties” button in the tool bar.
In the color properties dialog  box we have some options.
Most, if not all, are obvious, but here’s a little explanation.

At the top on the right, we have the “transparent”, “white” and black ” buttons (3).
Using them we can make the selected text in the monitor transparent, white or black, “.

But if you’ve selected an option in the “Gradient” box, (5), the color (A or B) selected in the color bar (4) is  transparent, white or black.
If you want a different color, click the color in the window.
You know the RGB code of the color type this in sections R, G and B.

If you see a color anywhere on the screen that you want, for example in an underlying video clip, select the dropper (4) and click this color.

Clicking on the down arrow next to the “Gradient” box (5) gives you plenty of options to determine the gradient of your text. I will not go through this because all this seems clear to me. What I can tell is that when you select “Gradient with four colors” in the list, you can set four colors by selecting the color box in a corner.

Under the “Changes” section we have the “Drop Shadow” box.
If you want to add a shadow to the text, first select the check box, and then you determine the “Angle”, the “Distance” and the “softness”.

Between the “sequence” box and the “color picker” we have the “filling” and “Line” buttons (7).
You can select the Fill button when you want to change the filling of text that has an edge, you click the button “Line” if you want to change this line color.
First off, you have a line width set.

For the rest you’ll have to try all these options.
What I can say is, when you have a text style applied to text, you can customize this style by clicking on the “Color Properties” button.

If you’ve created a new style, or if you want to change a text style that you can use later, you can save it.
Just click the “Save Style” button.
This opens a dialog box where you give this style a name, and click the OK button when you’re done.

Scroll all the way down the style list, you will see that the newly added style is included in the list.

 

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