How to add the outline of a drawing on top of text without covering text?

I want to type a poem and have an outline of a flower show through the text. Thanks

How to add the outline of a drawing on top of text without covering text?
your question is not clear, hopefully by doing the exercise below that you will have an understand of how it could be done. then you will have to make adjustment to the way you want it.





text over image or pattern can be distracting. i think you have to pay attention on color and contrast. i assumed you know how to do this in an image editor program, such as Photoshop.





1. use bold and solid text in first layer, note that this will be an image of text (jpg format).





2. have your outline of a drawing ready, i think monochrome will work best in here. put this in second layer.





3. select the first layer by choosing 'Select layer transparency' and then go to the put down menu %26lt;Select / Inverse%26gt;.





4. using your key board to finish this step, %26lt;Ctrl + v %26gt;, to cut the selected image.





now you have your first layer with the text-cut-out and opaque back ground, and your second layer with your flower image. you will be able to move your flower image to a desire position where it will be most readable through the text.





there are more than one way to do this, depends on how you want it. using the same idea of 'Select layer transparency' and 'Copy'. you could try selecting the layer transparency of the text in the text layer. go to the second layer of the flower image, and perform 'Copy' action. create a 'New Layer', this will be your third layer. paste the copied image onto this layer. hide the first and second layer. when only showing the third layer, now that you will see a layer with imaged text.
Reply:If this is done in photoshop you can take the line art and turn down the occupancy so it's actually a light grey.





Or maybe you can draw it lightly with a pencil or try water colors if the poem is written in waterproof ink
Reply:sounds complicated, may require an editor with use of layers, ~either try opening image, then create new layer with text over top and blend with transparency,


~or use capital bold text with outline option and allow flower image to show through text only,


~or use text as an watermark with use of filters like emboss and outlines and other effects,


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