I have an image and i have annotated a text on it in "Preview". There used to be an opacity slider in the "show colors" option of the Text color, in previous versions of "Preview", but now that slider is gone and there is only a "grey scale" slider . How can i change the text opacity in the new version?
please help....
This is the Pages for Mac support community. Preview is an inherent component application of OS X.
Preview no longer gives you access to annotated font transparency. This was present in Preview 5.0.3 on Snow Leopard.
You do still have access to the Apple color chooser via the Font colorwell in the Preview markup toolbar, but the opacity slider has been removed from the color chooser. Apple taking tools away again. 😟
Basically, in Pages you want to insert an image, and a text box. Place your text, and then with the text box (not the text) selected, you regulate the text transparency via the Apple color chooser opacity slider, or directly from the Pages '09 sub-toolbar. On either object, you want wrap disabled, so that you can slide your semi-transparent text over the desired image position. Select both and group.
Copying to the clipboard from Pages '09, and then choosing new from clipboard in a current Preview will give you a PDF image. Any version of Pages v5/v6 will give you a 72 dpi image (because of the transparency) that won't scale very well when enlarged.
"Apple taking tools away again..."
But hey, we just got 70 new emojis with the latest upgrade!
I too, struggled with the full-scale retreat of functionality with the advance of 70 new emojis. Apparently, we cannot have something new without paying a lost feature tax.
How do i change the opacity of a text on an image in Preview?
