How do you fade a photo so that it can be used as a background picture?
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you can use irfanview to fade jpegs.\n\nShift-G gets you into the control panel and you can preview "before vs. after" pics until you get it right.
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You can download the image you are looking for as a background from http://www.theouterlimits.com/downloads/index.html?desktop.  You can make that a screen saver in windows by using the My Pictures Slideshow and putting the picture in a folder by itself and telling the screen saver to look in that directory for pictures.
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photoshop or paint would probably work and the site www.photobucket.com MIGHT have something that would let you
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Most photo manipulation programs allow you to "cut & paste".\nI use Paint Shop Pro or Adobe "Photoshop"\n\nTry www.download.com and search for free programs.
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Technically, yes it is possible. They won't be background images though. You'll have to put the images in <div>'s (layers) that are "behind" your content. These layers will act as a background. \n\nhttp://www.w3schools.com/\n\nShould be able to give you all the information/training you need.
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open a new word doc, insert the picture, resize it, \nget the picture toolbar by right click on top grey area\nclick the "wrap text" button on the toolbar, choose behind text,\nadjust the contrast and brightness to set the transparency of pic, if you like. \nsave the file as template by file|save as| click save as type and choose document template to save to your desire file name.
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<style type="text/css">\nbody {\n  background-image:url('PICTURE URL HERE');\n  background-position:bottom right;\n  background-repeat:no-repeat;\n  background-attachment:fixed;)\n</style>\n\nPlace this code in your About Me section.\nFind your background and upload it using imageshack.us or photobucket.com but I suggest you to use imageshack.us. Paste the link onto the PICTURE URL HERE.\nChange your settings if you want to. (You can change the picture position in bottom left, bottom right, bottom center, center left, center right, center center and etc. Also, for background-repeat, you can either put no-repeat or repeat to have the picture in tiles. And finally for background-attachment, just leave it alone.)
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First of all, you should save the photo to your computer.  Then visit, www.photobucket.com and create an account.  Upload the photo at photobucket.  Then click the photo, the next page will come up with just the photo.  Now click it again, it should show you 3 different boxes, IMG, TAG, URL.  You need to copy the URL of your photo you wish to use.  \n\nNow, open another IE window, go to http://www.myspacetoolbox.com/myspace-editor.php\n\nNow in the Background section, paste the URL of your photo into the box that says, Image URL.  \n\nYour good to go!
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right click on the back ground and go to properties...then change the theme...or right click on any saved picture and slelect save as background
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Find the background you want to use, save it onto your computer.  Go to an image host site like www.photobucket.com upload the background there, take the url of the image and put it in this code:\n\n<body background=" URL HERE ">
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You can create a table/layer with background picture and center it out.\n\nTry this code\n<div style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 20%; z-index: 1; background-image: url('file'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center" id="layer1">\n </div>
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1. pull up your picture\n2. open it in paint\n3. go to save as\n4. change to .jpeg\n5. save and it will save as a .jpeg
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You really need something like Photoshop for that kind of blending.  Alternatively, you could try black and white (aka grayscale) it's a lot easier to blend color in an existing photograph in grayscale.  In any case, it's really really hard to do this well.  I touched up some old photographs in college (like this lady had a pic of her grandmother that had fallen apart, but it was the only picture in existence of the woman), and it took me over 25 hours of work to get it to look like a new, unblemished picture.\nEven if you Had photoshop, you would need a lot of practice.  I'm sorry to say that if you are looking to create the impression that the a person was actually photographed that way (let's say you wanted to create a fake nude of some celebrity or other), you are going to need a lot of skill, a lot of time, and a really good photo editor.  You will not achieve passable results otherwise.
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You cant make a jpeg with a transparent background. However, you can have a GIF with that attribute. The easiest way is with Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop, but is not the cheapest way. If you are an open source freak like me, then try GIMP. 100% free, and is the substitute for Photoshop.
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First off, upload your photo to http://www.imageshack.us . The last URL you are given is a direct link. Place it in this code where it says URLOFIMAGEHERE.jpg:\n<style type="text/css">\nbody \n{\nbackground-image: url('URLOFIMAGEHERE.jpg')\n}\n</style>\n\nPlace that in your 'About Me' section.
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if you just want to link a series of photos together, try www.gickr.com\n\nmore info: gickr lets you do it online, free, without having to download or log in or become a member or anything. just be aware that it won't look like your image is moving when you preview it on the gickr site, but once you save it to your pc or put it up on a site, it will be animated.
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Grab the picture/picture(s) you want. Get an account at photobucket, and it will have an option to upload photos. You can get all sorts of codes there.\n\nIf you want other pictures, there are several websights that allow you to customize your background from one or two pictures.