How can I put a watermark on an image? The watermark is text. I know
bsClear will give me a clear background, but I want the actual letters
to blend in with a photo without causing too much interference.

At the moment I am experimenting with a photo loaded in an image and
Xor-ing Pixels within a defined portion, but without success - I seem
to get colour loss or no change at all.

TIA.

In article <3982992f.38115...@news.hutch.com.au>, zank...@hutch.com.au (Steven)
writes:

It might not be exactly what you want but give it a try. I tried it with some
of the 256 col splash images that come with Delphi and the results aren't that
bad, it depends what you're looking for.

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
with Image1.Canvas do
begin
  beginPath(Handle);
     Font.Size:= 50;
        Font.Name:= 'Verdana';
        Font.Style:= [fsItalic,fsBold];
        SetBkMode(Handle,TRANSPARENT);
     TextOut(25,40,'Hello');
  endPath(Handle);

 Pen.color:= clSilver;
 //experiment with the Pen.Mode to get the effect you want
    Pen.Mode:=pmMergeNotPen;
 SetPolyFillMode(Handle, WINDING);
    Brush.Color:= clSilver;
 StrokeAndFillPath(Handle);
end;
end;

Gordon
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