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I need to display my college logo as watermark in certificate only... i tried with \usepackage{draftwatermark} and 

\SetWatermarkText{\includegraphics{filename}}
\SetWatermarkAngle{0}
\SetWatermarkScale{0.45}
\SetWatermarkColor[rgb]{0,1,0}
\SetWatermarkLightness{1}

.....everything is fine except lightness..image is displaying as it is...so the text is not visible .Is there any other commands. for watermark certificate and lightness should be very low.

Dr. Manuel Kuehner
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  • Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – jub0bs May 26 '13 at 13:02
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    The title does'n seem very appropriate. May I suggest you change it to something like "Make watermark image lighter" – Andrew Swann May 26 '13 at 13:52

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As you observe, \SetWatermarkLightness only really affects plain text part of the watermark. Using tikz you can specify transparency, or rather opacity: value 0 will be invisible, 1 will give the usual image:

Sample output

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[firstpage]{draftwatermark}
\usepackage{tikz}
\SetWatermarkText{\tikz{\node[opacity=0.2]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}};}}
\SetWatermarkAngle{0}
\SetWatermarkScale{0.45}
\SetWatermarkColor[rgb]{0,1,0}
\SetWatermarkLightness{1}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}
Andrew Swann
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Just to offer an alternative. The background package internally uses TikZ and offers an opacity key exactly for this purpose:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}% just for the example
\usepackage[firstpage=true]{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

\backgroundsetup{
contents={\includegraphics{example-image-a}},
angle=0,
scale=0.5,
color=black,
opacity=0.2
}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]

\end{document}

enter image description here

I used firstpage=true to have the material in the first page of the document, but using the features provided by the package you can place the material in any other individual page you desire.

Gonzalo Medina
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This may help. Thanks.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[pages=some]{background}
\backgroundsetup{scale=1, angle=0, opacity=0.15,
contents={\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] \node at ([yshift=0pt, xshift=95pt]current page.center)
{\includegraphics[scale=1.3]{your-image.png}};\end{tikzpicture}}}


\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-4]


\newpage
\BgThispage
\lipsum[1-4]


\newpage
\lipsum[1-4]
\end{document}
Pinaki Prasad Kar
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