: In illustrator how do you overlay an image to give it the same background texture and then darker those spots? I have a textured background and then on the individual texts I hit the overlay

@Holmes874

See the cartoon:




Have 2 copies of your text - one quite dark grey and one of the wanted color. Here the dark grey has R=G=B=51.
Place the dark one with blending mode = Color Burn
Place the other copy on the top with blending mode = Color


Step 2 can be enough, if the resulted color happens to be good for the purpose, but this way you get more flexibility.

You can reduce the effect by reducing the opacities.

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@Nimeshi706

Select the text or image or whatever and change it's Blending Mode on the Transparency Panel. Different blending modes will result in different appearances.

For objects such as text, you can also alter the fill color and it will cause blending modes to interact differently.

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