I would like to use a seamless background.. How do you add the seamless background in the back so it repeats and the layers would remain in the proper order?
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How do you add a seamless background?
I would like to use a seamless background.. How do you add the seamless background in the back so it repeats and the layers would remain in the proper order?
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
Import a bitmap, and Ctrl + drag the image from the bitmap gallery onto your webpage or the pasteboard (the area around your webpage). Tada!
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
So would I need to reduce the size of the site a little to make the background insert properly?
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
No, personally I would manipulate the dimensions of the bitmap, create a bitmap copy of it and then use the new bitmap as a seamlass background texture. Remember that bitmaps do not expand well.
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
Best to keep the size of the repeating tile small. Large bitmap backgrounds may cause the page to load very slowly.
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
OK, I would make a small (jpg, gif or png) and make it very small and seamless for proper import but I cannot seem to get this to work with what I created so I am going to try and recreate again. - Recreated - nope.. not working. i am using a trial of Xara P&G 6. That may be the issue. I will try it with Wed Designer 6 now.
Last edited by JENR8; 20 August 2010 at 01:36 AM.
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
P&G 6 is not set up for websites which may explain your problem. This should work fine with WD6.
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
Hi,
Seamless backgrounds are tricky to get tiled properly as everyones monitor size and browser size differs. What I genarally do is create a lyaer called back, then insert a rectangle the size of the page and fill the rectangle with my 'tile image' using 'repeating tile' and scale the image til' it loks reasonable, then move that layer down just above background and lock it.
JimM
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
Actually it is Gary.Originally Posted by gwpriester
Xara P&GD6 is as capable as Web Designer 5 and Xtreme 5/Pro 5 for websites.
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Re: How do you add a seamless background?
I just use fill tool with the repeat feature. I can do it with imported images or ones I make then create bitmap copies of, and it's easy to set repetitiveness and angel just by using the fill adjustment.
All geometry is fixed so this aspect is WYSIWYG. It's also a lot faster and reliable than other mentioned methods.
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