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Backgrounds with Web Studio
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The Backgrounds Gallery offers you a wide selection of background textures to work with. These textures are used to
add backgrounds to pages, to texturize graphics and to fill the individual characters of text.
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Using the Background Gallery's Solid Colors
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The grid of colors enables you to add a solid color background to your pages. To add a color, simply drag the grid
thumbnail onto your page. The Windows Color dialog will come up. Click on the color you want and click the OK button.
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Note that for backgrounds you'll want to use very soft, pastel like, light colors or very dark colors. Using colors in
between will compete visually with the things on your page for your user's attention. So if you want a yellow
background, click on the light yellow color, then click on "Define Custom Colors" and make the a lot lighter, almost
white. You'll be surprised how strong even light colors are when acting as a background.
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Choosing a light color is best
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Adding a Background Texture or Image to a Page
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Drag it from the gallery, drop it onto a
blank portion of the page.
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Adding a texture or image to your page as a background sets the tone for your entire page. Make it something that
goes along with the theme of your page. If you are doing a page on autumn, adding a leaf backgrounds makes
sense. To add a background, drag it from the gallery and drop it on a blank part of your page.
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Fun Things With Backgrounds
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You can drag a background texture onto just about anything on your page in Web Studio. Dragging onto the blank
part of a page will make the texture become the background of the page.
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However, dropping a texture onto a text object actually fills the text with the texture! And dropping a texture onto a
graphic will "texturize" the graphic.
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Let's see how to do these cool things!
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Background Textures on Text
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Dragging a texture onto a text object will fill all of the black characters in the text object with the texture. Here we
dropped the "dried clay" texture onto some text and it filled the letters. For best results make your text big and bold.
Imagine what you can do with this FX!
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Tip: Textures only fill the Black characters, you can change
the color of other characters in your text to add even more
cool effects. If you want some black text, make it very dark
Gray, that will fool Web Studio.
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Background Textures on Graphics
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Drop a texture onto any graphic and you'll instantly texturize it. Try to use textures and graphics that aren't too dark or too
light. Too light will lighten the graphic too much, etc.
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Here we dropped the fish texture onto
the picture of the ice, to the left, and
created the object to the far left.
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And finally, the Best is Left For Last!
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Since you can add any graphic you want to the Background Gallery, you can use any of its unusual abilities to add your
graphics to texturize other graphics and text. Here we've added a photo from the Photo Gallery to the Backgrounds Gallery.
We're going to drop the photo onto some text to fill the text with the photo. Trying this from the Photo gallery doesn't work,
because it doesn't know how to texturizes things, but the Background Gallery does!
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We drag a photo onto a page, copy it, and then paste it into the
Backgrounds Gallery by Right Clicking on the place we want to
paste it in the gallery.
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Then we drag the photo from the Backgrounds
Gallery onto the text we want to fill with the photo.
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