Shade Overlay 1.0

Shade Overlay is an AppleScript that will lighten or darken an area of a selected image in QuarkXPress. This is often done to place text over an image and still have it readable.

To use, place a text or picture box (can even be a polygon) over the part of the image you wish to effect, select the overlay box and the image, and run the script.

The script has preferences for setting the brightness and contrast of either the area covered by the overlay box or the area around the overlay box.

There are preference controls for whether you want the script to use a duplicate file or the original.