Can I mask text with a PNG and then overlay onto a PDF?

SquadronPosters

May 20, 2020 13:02

I'm trying to create a "grunge" effect by masking a text with a grunge PNG. I've got that to work here:

https://res.cloudinary.com/squadron-posters/image/upload/l_text:My%20Font%20USAAF%20Stencil.ttf_200_right:TEST%20TEXT,fl_cutter/v1589948379/Grunge-Font-Layer.png

Then, I'd like to place/overlay that onto a pdf but I can't seem to get it to work. The PDF I'd like to put it onto is https://res.cloudinary.com/squadron-posters/image/upload/v1589688837/16in34bs_njouwf.pdf

Thanks in advance for the help.

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  Shirly Manor

  May 20, 2020 19:31

  Hi,

  Can you please elaborate on your expected result?

  Are you expecting something like:

  https://res.cloudinary.com/squadron-posters/image/upload/l_text:My%20Font%20USAAF%20Stencil.ttf_190_right:TEST%20TEXT/l_Grunge-Font-Layer/fl_cutter,fl_layer_apply/16in34bs_njouwf.pdf

  Looking forward to your response,

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  SquadronPosters

  May 20, 2020 20:25

  Shirly, Yes thank you! You give a lot of help, Ive read through most of your comments. Okay, now how do I move that text down underneath the other text? When I try a southeast gravity it only moves the grunge layer or the text layer or it all dissappears. Any help would be awesome!

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  Shirly Manor

  May 21, 2020 16:42 Edited

  Great! I'm not sure where exactly do you want to add the text. but you can play with the x and y. For example:

  https://res.cloudinary.com/squadron-posters/image/upload/l_text:My%20Font%20USAAF%20Stencil.ttf_190_right:TEST%20TEXT/l_Grunge-Font-Layer/x_-10,y_-350,fl_cutter,fl_layer_apply/16in34bs_njouwf.pdf

  Can that work for you?

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  SquadronPosters

  May 25, 2020 18:09

  Perfect! Okay, one last question....if I want to make the movement of the text to be relative to the background image...I have different sized backgrounds so relative makes more sense than absolute x/y. How can I do a north_east gravity and put my sample text in the bottom right under the other text? Thank you so much...promise that's the last qestion!

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  Jay Akhtar

  May 26, 2020 23:45

  Hi,

  Here is the closest I can get to relative positioning using g_south_east.

  https://res.cloudinary.com/squadron-posters/image/upload/l_text:My%20Font%20USAAF%20Stencil.ttf_150_right:TEST%20TEXT/l_Grunge-Font-Layer,c_scale,h_1100,w_950/g_south_east,fl_cutter,fl_layer_apply/16in34bs_njouwf.pdf

  Please note the Grunge layer is 7267 pixels wide and only 818 tall. Grunge Layer is a very large-sized image as compared to the pdf file, hence to use relative positioning both layers need to be close to the same size if not exactly the same as overlapped.

  Let me know if this helps.

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