candace

I want to create a very simple background, something that will frame my website without drawing attention away from the site. I was thinking of a color gradient, from darker at the top to lighter at the bottom or a simple texture/color. I did find some nice backgrounds at www.grsites.com, they say the backgrounds have been gathered legally and are free but I have not dealth with them before. Has anyone here or has anyone heard about their reliability/honesty? Also, in a few of the tutorials, I think it said that anything created in Paint.Net is a pdn, and that I have to change it to a jpg to use it on website? Not sure if I understood that correctly. Please explain in more detail what that means and what I need to do to use something I create with/in Paint.Net at another location. Thank you, Candace

This was wonderful gentlemen. All three of your posts helped me to improve my headline and helped me start to experiment/learn how to use Paint.Net. I wound up using the Gaussian and Radial Blurs, what fun! Two more questions: I'm assuming that I posted in the correct area? I read the posting tutorials and they seemed to point me to the General area for any questions I had on how to use Paint.Net. And, can or should I use Paint.Net to create a background for my website? Thank you DrewDale, minners71, and Ego Eram Reputo, Candace P.S. Ok, ok, one more question. To get back to this post and your answers, do I just type in the title of my post in the search box and it will take me here or is there a way I can save this post to my computer or email it to myself?

Hello, I am trying to make a picture fit a headline size of 960 x 150. I have resized the picture to 160 x 152 so the height is good. The object of the picture is on the right and that is where I would like to keep it. What I would like to do is extend the width, to the left, to 960 and fill in that new space with the background color in the picture. Then add the title of my website on the left. I looked at the tutorials but cannot seem to make the tools do the changes I want. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to make my headline.