Thank you gwpriester and James Allen, this was exactly what I was looking for ideas on how to blend the colors in the background and the sort of logic behind it. I can sort of see a logic to doing these fancy backgrounds. I saw this the other day and saw a lot of potential in being able to design stuff like that. I hope to find sometime and experiment with this.

Out of curiosity, would there a better program out there I should consider to get these type of results easier? From my understanding so far Xara is more for a vector type graphic.