Notice: The Animation tab is created for the first-generation layouts (“Grid” to “One and others”).
For next-generation layouts (“Grid 2” to “Big Post 2”), the Animation tab is disabled. To create an overlay layout, please use Overlay layouts (Overlay 1, 2, …, 8).

In Animation tab, please select “Always” option for the “Overlay Thumbnail With Text” setting.

You can customize the position of the overlay easily with the “Overlay Position” setting.

Best regards,

You can show overlay always, on hover or disable it.
Also, you can change position of overlay text as top, middle, bottom of thumbnail.

Requirement

Please ensure to select the Show Title or Show Content checkbox in Display Settings >> Fields Settings. Otherwise, there is nothing to show in the overlay.

Overlay without text

For now, overlay always require text. The workaround to show overlay without text is setting transparent color for the text in the overlay:

• select only 2 checkboxes: Show Thumbnail and Show Title in Display Settings >> Fields Settings
• use this text
  transparent
  as value of Style Settings > Title > Text Color

Best regards,

This feature is only available in the Pro version.

Notice: The Animation tab is created for the first-generation layouts (“Grid” to “One and others”).
For next-generation layouts (“Grid 2” to “Big Post 2”), the Animation tab is disabled. To create an overlay layout, please use Overlay layouts (Overlay 1, 2, …, 8).

In Animation tab, please select option “On hover” for the “Overlay Thumbnail With Text” setting.

To change text color and background color of the overlay, please use Thumbnail Overlay setting in Style Settings tab:

To change the opacity of background color, please check this document.

Thank you,