[Tex/LaTex] How to get transparent text

Question

I am trying to make a picture for the cover of my thesis using LaTeX. I have a background picture and I would like to have transparent (math) text on top of it, how do I achieve this? I have tried to install the transparent package, but was not successful.

Answer 1

Here is a non-TikZ solution. We specify the transparency using \transparent{<value>}, where the value is from 0-1. Adjust the values to suit.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
 \usepackage{color}
 \usepackage{transparent}
 \begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{./graphics/amato}\par
\vspace*{-3cm}
\hspace*{-1cm} \hbox{%
 \bfseries\Huge
 \color{red}%
 \transparent{0.4}%
 MY THESIS
 }
\end{document}