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    <p>I am writing an application that edits meta data of songs. To do this I have a window that has selected song tags and you can choose between the old and the new. I have a custom control with 3 pictureboxes in it for each tag box. One picture box for the left cap, one for the middle and one for the right cap. I then have overwritten OnPaint for the UserControl to draw the text onto the control. This works fine except when I try to use white text on top of a picture box that has an image in it. The white seems to become semi transparent. I have attached pictures below demonstrating this.</p> <p><strong>Black Text</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://bentrengrove.com.au/blackText.PNG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Image of Black Text http://bentrengrove.com.au/blackText.PNG</a></p> <p><strong>White Text</strong></p> <p><a href="http://bentrengrove.com.au/WhiteText.PNG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Image of White Text http://bentrengrove.com.au/WhiteText.PNG</a></p> <p><strong>Here is the code for my OnPaint method</strong></p> <pre><code>protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { base.OnPaint(e); Graphics g = e.Graphics; Brush b; Font f; if (_isSelected &amp;&amp; this.Enabled) //Determines if the tag has the boxes visible, i.e is a selected tag { b = new SolidBrush(Color.White); f = new System.Drawing.Font("Segoe UI", 8, FontStyle.Regular); } else { b = new SolidBrush(Color.Gray); f = new System.Drawing.Font("Segoe UI", 8, FontStyle.Regular); } var textSize = g.MeasureString(_text, f); //We will resize the tag boxes based on the size of the text StringFormat drawFormat = new StringFormat(); drawFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near; RectangleF layoutRectangle = new RectangleF(leftCap.Width, 1, textSize.Width, 16); if (textSize.Width &gt;= 105) _text = String.Format("{0}...", _text.Substring(0, 15)); //There is only so much room to display text middle.Width = (int)textSize.Width + rightCap.Width; rightCap.Left = middle.Left + middle.Width - rightCap.Width; g.DrawString(_text, f, b, layoutRectangle, drawFormat); //Draw the string for this control based on what has been set to text //Clean up g.Dispose(); b.Dispose(); f.Dispose(); } </code></pre> <p>Please if anyone has any ideas why I can't draw in white the help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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    1. CODoes it show better if you use a bigger font? Does setting the FontStyle to FontStyle.Bold help? I have a feeling it's an antialiasing issue.
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    3. COPicture of bold text: [link](http://bentrengrove.com.au/BoldText.PNG)
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