Multi color text question?

[Tammy H]

You know how you know something but can't get your brain to fire the right synapsis to retrieve it?  Yeah.  That's my world right now.  

I don't even know how to word this, but lemme see if I can get it clearly.  I have a back and white graphic I'm laying text on on.  Of course, my black text shows up clearly on the white sections of the graphic.  I want to put white text on the black parts and have the whole paragraph show up as a smooth black and white transitioning text block over the graphic.  I know this is something I've done before and for the life of me I can't remember how.  Worse, I can't figure out how to say it to google so I can find a tutorial. Can someone point me down the right road, please?

[Damien Symonds]

I think what you want is to make the text all white, then put its layer blend mode on "Difference".

[Tammy H]

Ok!   I'm currently in a travel mode and don't have the computer in front of me. I'll give that a shot and let you know how it works.  Thanks!

[Damien Symonds]

To be honest, I don't think you'll find it satisfactory.  I never have - it's hard to read.

It's better to have all-black text with a white stroke around it; or all-white text with a black stroke around it.

[Tammy H]

You were right...I wasn't thrilled.  So what I ended up doing is creating a png file with the white text and masking that layer off in the areas i didn't want it to show.  I think it came out well enough for a gramma scrapbook page  

 

[Tammy H]