25 Things to Make and Do in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements® 4

Chapter 21. Create a Large, Mono-Color Background

Use a photo or illustration to make a large, mono-color background from brochures to Web pages.

Tools: Photoshop Elements

Materials: Your photo

If you want to add an interesting background to the cover of a brochure or a Web page, you'll find this technique works great. Using a full-color image to fill an entire background normally requires a four-color process, which is costly, and for Web pages it typically results in a file that's too large for Web viewing. Another reason for creating a mono-color background is that you may want a subtle image; you want to add texture and content for your headline ...