BUG: Song Text color changes to black upon uploaded black background image with white dot.

The song text color defaults to white when the built-in black background is selected (this is OK). However, when a background image is uploaded which is all black with a single white dot in one corner (used to cue the ushers) the text color turns black (therefore invisible) and must be re-set to white using CUSTOM editing. Seems your algorithm for setting text color based on background color needs some work. It seems to be picking the brightest part of the image (the dot) and selecting the text color based on that. (For reference: the image was PNG formatted.) Once the text color is manually changed back to white (which takes several clicks to do), it stays there unless the background image is changed again. Admittedly, I have not experimented with different background images, such as all-black uploaded image, white with black dot, etc. in order to try to characterize the bug, but this is enough to know that something needs to be fixed.

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Hunter Clagett

Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Currently, Proclaim selects a black font color by default for custom-uploaded
backgrounds.

We are working on a system to detect average background color and select an appropriate font to complement it, but that will be coming after our current round of improvements.

I'd recommend you post your idea to our Uservoice page so that we can keep track of it, and it's priority to our users: http://proclaim.uservoice.com/

Thanks,

Gene Heathershaw

May you could just prevent the font color and justification from changing at all when a background image is loaded, like the built-in backgrounds work. The text alignment also goes to horizontally centered when I upload a background image, but selecting one of the built-in backgrounds, nothing changes with the justification or color, unless a light background is selected.