This article describes how to set the text color. Fill, outline and shadow colors:
 Fill color |  Outline color |  Shadow color |
 Text fill |  Text outline |  Text shadow |
By default, VideoPsalm displays the song lyrics and Bible verses in white over a black background:
This standard setup (white on black) is adequate to many situations.
This article describes how to build a more fancy display:
This article describes how to build a more fancy display:
A slide has a background from a plain color, an image or a video.
This is how you can set the background color:
This is how you can set the background color:
Which gives this:
White on blue is well readable.
However, in case you use a fix or moving background, you want to make sure that the text remains visible over its background.
Indeed, white on white is not well readable, like what we can see in the bellow screenshot:
However, in case you use a fix or moving background, you want to make sure that the text remains visible over its background.
Indeed, white on white is not well readable, like what we can see in the bellow screenshot:
Not well readable text because of the light background
Note To get free and nice background images and video loops for your VideoPsalm:
Solution 1 - Adjust the text fill color:
3 easy steps:
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:
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:
Note The following articles describe the VideoPsalm cascading styles and how they can help you setup a stunning presentation in a few clicks only:
Step 2 - Open the text fill color dropdown.
Step 3 - Select a dark color, that will be well visible over a light background:
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.
Solution 2 - Adjust the text outline color
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.
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:
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:
The opposite is true too: a dark fill color with a light outline color:
This covers most of the needs.
Solution 3 - Add a text shadow effect
The text shadow effect will give deepness to the text, a kind of a nice 3D effect:
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:
Solution 4 - Use a preset color effect from the font color gallery
Select one of the preset color effect from the font color gallery:
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:
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):
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:
Highlight specific words The following articles describe this task in details:
Adjust font size globally:
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