Web building templates - sewing themed?

I forgot to mention the word ...."FREE". I already have my hosting service, so I am just looking for the art background. (Can you tell I am new at this?) Joy

Mike Hardie scrawled in bright red lipstick:

Joy, do you have access to a digital camera or a scanner, and photo software? There are a number of really easy ways to make background out of any digital image, I'd be happy to walk you though it.

Penny S

I did that with the image of Twiggy I used on the Romeo & Juliet page. I keep meaning to do it again with some nice sewing gadgets! :)

Yes, I have a digital camera, scanner and photo software ...but I don't think my husband has bright red lipstick. I would love to learn to do this if you can talk me through it. Joy

Mike Hardie scrawled in bright red lipstick:

I'll write up various directions later.

In the meantime, go to my site

and you can see how I made transparent and tiled background out of photos. This is just one way to do it.

Penny

Mike Hardie scrawled in bright red lipstick:

ok - you can take a very small image, as small as 50x50 pixels, and use it as a background, If you it as it should automatically "tile". On my

site, I used a little tiny .gif file called "parchmen.gif" for the background. I could see scanning a piece of fabric, cropping it ( save for web if you have that file reduction option in your software; photoshop has that) and create a small image. Or a larger one. You can also take an image, I use photos and using the image adjustment functions, you can make the photo look transparent and very soft... like this page here:

using images this way you can really see the tiling effect. It'sbetter to use things that will match up when you tile them so that the seamsare unnoticalbe.

For sewing, I would scan some fabric, or some lace or??? and then see what kind of small background images you can create. You could do bars with horizontal lace pieces, or even scan buttons to make your navigation buttons!!

hope this gets you started.

Penny

Thanks Penny! Hope you won't be disappointed when my web-site turns up plain at first. It looks like all that creativity will take extra time and though. I am struggling just figgetting with the pictures at this point. Thanks again, Joy

Penny wrote

Check out what I did with various Cajun icons (in the form of jewelry) here:

--Karen M. photoshopper

Plain is *good*. Most backgrounds make pages harder to read.

Joy Beeson