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in this video I'm going to show you on
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how you can create a transparent overlay
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in cona the overlay effect is extremely
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helpful when you are trying to make the
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text or trying to make an object on top
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of something to to stay visible in this
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example I have this nice background
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however the background is kind of uh
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have the same color with the text and
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it's making the text to be basically
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difficult to read especially from afar I
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can still see the text but it's not very
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nice and this is not a great looking
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design so I have to put something uh to
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between the picture between the
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background and this text so the text can
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stay visible now I'm going to insert an
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overlay and the way you can do it is by
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going to elements and you want to search
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for shapes and you could use any shape
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but in this case I'm going to create an
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overlay that will cover the entire area
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and that's why I'm going to be selecting
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this simple Square you can also use the
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keyboard shortcut sorry the keyboard key
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R to insert that instantly so let me
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show you how you can do that I'm going
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to use uh let me remove this
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first okay there you go so you can press
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the keyboard key R and that will bring
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this uh square shape and it's very
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useful if you want to use this very
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often now let's encapsulate all the uh
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the element all the the cover basically
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and then we want to change the color
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into something it could be white black
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uh orange red it's really depend on what
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you are trying to build uh in this case
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I think black is usually good enough and
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after that you want to set the
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transparency to maybe around 20 around
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30 depending on your design and
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depending on how much visibility that
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you want to get I think around 30 is
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great 20 to 40 is usually The Sweet Spot
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number and when you're done you you want
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to make sure that this overlay is
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positioned between the background and
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the text so you can right click and then
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click layer and then send to uh backward
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if you want to get a better idea about
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the positioning of each layer of the of
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the elements then you can go to position
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click layers and then you will see that
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this overlay is still on top of this
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element and this T so we want to drag it
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down so it will be on top of the
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background and this is the result that
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we got pretty cool right so that's how
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you can create a transparent overlay in
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