Douglas,
Thank you for help.
Now it works great if I write a text from the top, e.g. to write the text 20
pixel from left and 20
from the top.
I use textpos=(20,20)
But I would like to write the text to the lower left bottom, starting 30
pixels from left and 30
from the bottom.
So I use
textpos=(im.size[0]-30,im.size[1]-30)
but it does not work. There si no text written.
Can you please tell me why?
Thank you
Lad.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> As Amos Newcombe pointed out, this is not what you really want. If
> you still want to try, something like this would be easiest:
>
> # complement the whole image
> comp = im.point(lambda x: 255 - x)
>
> # make a text mask -- a black image with white writing
> mask = Image.new('L', im.size, 0)
> font = ImageFont.load_default()
> draw = ImageDraw.Draw(mask)
> draw.text((5, 5), "hello hello", fill="white")
>
> #paste the complementary image over the original, using the text as a
> #mask.
> im.paste(comp, (0,0), mask)
>
> To follow Paul Svensson's suggestion, you would do the same, but with
> a different overlay image.
>
> inverse_threshold = im.point((([255]*128) + ([0]*128)) * 3)
>
> and paste that instead of the complementary image. But I think the
> clearest way, based on watching subtitled movies, is to have the text
> in a constant colour, with an outline, or shadow, or glow. So I would
> try instead:
>
> blur = mask.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)
> im.paste((0,0,0), (0,0), blur)
> im.paste((255,255,255), (0,0), mask)
>
> for white writing with a black halo. Maybe black on white is better.
>
>
> douglas
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