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RE: Subdue Images or Photos on Webpage Background

Dustin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:16:00 GMT

As stated, the best solution would be to edit the photo before hand in an external app.

An opacity property does exist in CSS, but it is not well supported across multiple browsers enough that I've ever used it. I'm not sure if it works on background images either.

RE: Subdue Images or Photos on Webpage Background

Eera — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:36:17 GMT

I think John pretty much summed it up, you just run the images through some photo editting software such as Photoshop, Paint.net or Irfanview, adjust brightness, color balance etc whatever is needed to make the image fit well with your page.
Personally I find that an image with contrast to surrounding elements is more likely to draw attention than something that blends with them. Obviously though you don't want to hide the image, just lower the "HEY LOOK AT ME" factor of them.

Also on this subject in general Paint.net is a free piece of software with a lot of similarities to Photoshop but is very simple. It's based on the idea of improving on the MS Paint program, I'd suggest trying that out before going for photoshop.

RE: Subdue Images or Photos on Webpage Background

John Goodheart — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:21:20 GMT

I am a newbie, but could you use photoshop on the picture and then put it on the site? I did that on my site to add lettering to the top without using expression.

Good luck and Aloha

John

www.johngoodheart.com
www.computerhealing.org

Subdue Images or Photos on Webpage Background

CalExplorer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:32:19 GMT

I would like to place one or rotating images on the background of a webpage. However I want these images to be subdued so that they will not overpower the message text which will be on a layer in front of them. How does one subdue or make images less vivid on a web page. By the way these are photo images of say a store front, the insides of the store, etc.

I want to do the same thing on a what's happening page which list community events. I want to have different photos of places and events in the community. But I again, do not want the background of the photo too overpower the message which is in front of it.

How does one subdue a background image.

Thanks