help does anyone know how to make backrounds lighter as i want to make a insert for a card using the same backround as i used on the front of the card. vinmac

Hi vinmac,

If you look across in the Layers tab on the right, and click on the + next to the Background, you will then be able to click on the bitmap so you can play around with it. Once you see your background has the box around it to show it is selected, you can then go up to the Transparency Slider under the Colour Box and play around with that to get your desired effect.

Hope that helps.

Karen

I didn't know that!

Karen thank you very much for your help i have now done the inserts about to print now and put the invits together

There is another option, too; select the background as Karen describes, then go to the context tool bar just above your page and to the left and play around with increase contrast, lighter and the auto buttons - different effects from the transparency because they preserve the colour, just change the depth etc.

@Sunset: Thanks for the reminder on that option--why do I keep forgetting these things? (Can't be my age!)

I'd forgotten about that possibility as well, Hilary. (I see SunnyD and I must have been posting about the same time. ) I have come up with some lovely BG papers doing that - obviously it's always different,depending upon the original one you use. This one, for instance, gave a lovely light centre to the page.



Another tool to use is the Transparency Tool, for even more different effects. If you open the Help File when you are in CA, and search for the Transparency Tool, you will get all the information on how to use it. I've only just started messing about with this in a very small way, but having just looked at the section in my User Guide I see that you can actually get in quite deep and edit the gradient transparency as much as you like. OK, so there's another thing to add to my "Playtime List"

If I tell myself I can't drop off the perch until I've learned all there is to know about using CA, it looks like I'm going to be around for a few centuries, at this rate.

Karen

I just tried using the context tool bar and it does work, but doesn't show up on original, so I copied the page and then the changes show up. Never used those before. Thanks!

Sunset...I have never even noticed those buttons (globes) before...did you just sneak them in
I really hate to admit how unobservant I am. This is the second thing tonight that I had no idea existed or what it was for. Thank You Daisy Trail members!!!