Images
Have you ever found a background tile that you absolutely loved, but when you put it on your page you exclaimed "what was I thinking"?

The font color did not show up because the Bg was to loud and just jumped out at you in that "look at me, I'm horrid" sort of way, right?

We've all been there, and fear not. There is a way to use that background and still see what is written on the page as well. It's ezee, just use it for the border. They look awesome running down the left side of the page, it gives it personality! So after this tutorial you will be able to have your background and use it too! You will look at background tiles in a totally different way! I have the perfect example for us to use!



My opinion is that this makes a very "busy" background in and of itself, but I love it so much and really wanted to use it. It does make a beautiful BorderBg; in fact I made a whole Set using this design.
check it out!
and feel free to transload it if you'd like to use it!

OK, getting back to resizing. I am by no means an expert at "ImageMagick", and this definately is not an ImageMagick tutorial! LOL! I just play around until I figure out what I'm trying to accomplish, but I did learn how to resize, finally! (WooHoo!)

This is where knowing the height value of your blankbg is going to be quite necessary. You will need to make the image the same height as the blankbg because you want it to fit nice and snug onto the blank when you composite.

Copy the image above into your browser, (or use your own if you'd like) and go to "ImageMagick".

Once you have the image in view, go to the top right of the page and click on "resize".

Since my bgblank is 640 by 113 (width and height respectively, width is always the first number, height the second)  I am going to resize this image to be 113x113.

You will scroll down to the box that says "image size" above it. Here is where you will put in he size that you want your image to be. Delete the default values so the box is empty.

Remember that "width" is the first number and height is the second, you will type in 113x113! It's important to use the exclamation point to force the image to exactly the size you specify.

Click on the resize button and it will bring your resized image into view.

Transload it to your files and come right back because next we are going to composite our image to our blankbg.

Make your BrBg!~~~~~>
 
How am I doing so far? If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me or visit my group, it's called TvWebbys-WebTv

I'd like to thank Norberts Linkables for all the awesome Bgs that I've used on my pages!