On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Amos Newcombe wrote:
> You find the complementary color by subtracting each color band from 255
> (assuming 8-bit color). The problem with this is that if your original color
> is medium gray, the complementary color will be very close to it and you
> will get no legibility. So you have to test for this case and go to some
> other color, perhaps black or white.
Slightly better than complementing each color band, set it as far off
from the background as you can; [00..7F] -> FF, [80..FF] -> 00.
/Paul
> Amos
>
> On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Christopher ,
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> Is there a way how to find out a complementary colour for an area where I
>> will write the text, so
>> that the text will be seen clearly?Is there a routine in PIL or in Python
>> somewhere?
>> Thank you for help
>> Lad.
>>
>
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