Since you and I use different image editing software I cannot take you step-by-step through the process. In a general sense this is what you should be able to do for your images of a test screen.

Your camera should have the ability to project a composition grid onto the optical viewfinder, or live view LCD panel. Use this to square up the image in the camera so there is no parallax distortion and the subject is both vertical and horizontal.



Set the camera mode to full color.
It will not matter if you capture in RAW, or use .jpg for this type of project.

Capture a quick test image of the subject, make sure all is looking good just after the capture.

Somewhere in your image editing software you should be able to convert (export) the capture to B&W Film. Do not just suck out the color, of decrease the Chroma levels, at this point you need to emulate Kodak Tri-X film. With this type of conversion, you still have the ability to use colored glass filtration before the lens to control the effect color bands have on the exposure of the subject on film. (This is going back to Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier Bresson, Edward Weston, W Eugene Smith, and the photographers of Life, Look Magazines). In this type of user interface and conversion you do not place a glass filter before the camera lens, you adjust the filtration with mouse controlled slider for the exact effect in B&W you need for the test screen.

After you get the subject looking good in B&W you can then select the full image and use the Paint Bucket to flood fill the image with the background color of your desire. Use the Transparency slider to control the amount of fill color and leave the text near white. Or, you can select the background, leaving the text un-selected, and flood fill the background; invert the selection and flood fill the text characters to the color and transparency of your desire.


If you can get the desired rendition of the subject under test on your computer, and print a test page, and that page look good, you may have a problem with others printers and MS Word.

Whenever you insert an image into a Microsoft application use the file formats .jpg, or .png.

Print a test page, take the Word file to work and print another test page. This will point to where the rendering problem resides.

Michael G