VideoPsalm

This article describes how to set the text color. Fill, outline and shadow colors:

A slide has a background from a plain color, an image or a video.

​This is how you can set the background color:

Which gives this:

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Solution 1 - Adjust the text fill color:

3 easy steps:

Step 1 - Select the style level at which you want to assign the text color.
In case the background is the same for verses of this song, you will want to assign the text fill color at the "Song" style level:

The result is much more readable, isn't it?

Depending on the background, it is not always possible to find the right color by the first trail.
One cool feature of the color dropdown is the possibility to grab a color from the background image:
​​1. Press the "Display more colors" button:

You get a color wheel from where you can select many more colors, as well as Red-Green-Blue and transparent sliders:

Notice the pipette. It enables you to grab any color from anywhere on your screen:

This comes in handy to find the exact color from the background image, and assort the text color to it.
Click and drag the "Pipette" icon to the color area in your screen.
Isn't that cool?

The text fill color is enough in many situations.
But how to handle text floating over a moving background, alternating between dark and light colors?
This is where the solution 2 comes to the rescue.
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Solution 2 - Adjust the text outline color

Step 1 - Open the text outline color dropdown.
​Step 2 - Select the outline color.
Step 3 - Adjust the outline width.

That's what we can get with an outline dark color over a light background:

And with the same text colors, over a dark background:

As you can see, the combination of a light fill color with a dark outline color can fit every background.
The opposite is true too: a dark fill color with a light outline color:

This covers most of the needs.

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Solution 3 - Add a text shadow effect

​The text shadow effect will give deepness to the text, a kind of a nice 3D effect:

You set the shadow through the third color dropdown:

Step 1 - Open the text shadow color dropdown.
Step 2 - Select the shadow color.
Step 3 - Adjust the Blur effect, its depth and direction.

Do you like it so far?
There is one more way to set your text colors:
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Solution 4 - Use a preset color effect from the font color gallery
Select one of the preset color effect from the font color gallery:

So far, we have seen how to globally set the font color of a song verse, or a whole song, etc.
It is the recommended way of doing it: by using the tools in the top bar (the ribbon bar):

Solution 5 - Highlight specific song lyric words
Sometimes you need to highlight a specific word in a song verse, like the word "Awesome" below:

You may need to display the song slide number or other information in the footer or the header.
See the highlighted area in the below image for an example:

This panel enables you to set the header and footer templates.
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2. Type-in following text template in the footer fields:

​[Song title] ([Songbook abbreviation] [Song number])
Slide [Verse rank] of [Verse number]
[Church licence]

​From now on, all song verses (unless their style specifies differently at a higher level) will be displayed with their verse rank and verse count:

The list of available template fields is described here.

​3. Save your changes:

Remark 1 The songbooks properties available in the middle panel are a convenient way to setup the header and footer templates, globally for all songs.
However, the header and footer templates are part of the VideoPsalm cascading style properties.
This means that you can setup these properties at any style level, in the Style explorer.

Remark 2 For "Lower third" use, set the header and footer size and location accordingly.

Remark 3 Bible verses have distinct header and footer templates.
You can setup their field templates like you do for songbooks.

This topic describes how to adjust the Bible display settings once and for all verses.

To change the Bible default font, proceed as follows:

1. Display a Bible verse, to see how it gets rendered in the preview area.
You will be able to see instantly the result of your font style changes.
Any Bible verse will do.

2. Click on the "Bibles" button, to the right of the "Songbooks" button:

This will set the VideoPsalm style level to the "Bibles".
Alternatively, select the "Bibles" style level in the toolbar:

From now on, until you change the style level, all changes will be done at this style level ("Bibles").

By default, the Bible font size is around 100, but 70 may fit better.

This is all there is to do.

The new font size will apply to all verses of all Bibles that you have (and others that you may later get), except for those Bible verses where you individually set another font size.
See the links at the end of the article about VideoPsalm cascading styles.

4. Save your changes:

This will delete all styles customization at following style levels: Bible, Testament, Bible book, Chapter and Bible verse.
For example text color that you have previously set at some Bible verses.
These style attributes have priority over the style changes made at the "Bibles" level, so it is good to remove them, now that you did the changes at the "Bibles" level.

​Save your changes:

Changes that you make to Bibles may be ignored, depending on how your options are configured.
Make sure that the following option is selected: