Background images?

[Maureen Stadnik]

I am new to Fireworks and have done a couple of the tutorials but am having
some trouble figuring something out. I want to do a couple of mock ups for a
simple web site that I'm going to build for someone and I can't figure out
how to display an image so that it tiles across the entire layer, like a
page background. I thought maybe you could "fill" with an image but I can't
find a way to do this either. At this point I'm thinking that I should just
work them up in Front Page or Go Live and be done with it. Does anyone have
any experience with this? Thanks for your help.

[Japes]

Maureen Stadnik wrote:

> I am new to Fireworks and have done a couple of the tutorials but am

having

> some trouble figuring something out. I want to do a couple of mock ups for

a

> simple web site that I'm going to build for someone and I can't figure out
> how to display an image so that it tiles across the entire layer, like a
> page background. I thought maybe you could "fill" with an image but I

can't

> find a way to do this either.

Are you wanting to tile an image or a texture? Look at saving your
background graphic as either a texture or a pattern, as long as you've
designs it correctly it will then tile seamlessley (is thata word?)

Here are some tools to help you create a tile:

Free:

[url]http://www.playingwithfire.com/color/ilya_tiler.html[/url]
[url]http://www.playingwithfire.com/color/tiles.html[/url]

Commercial:

[url]http://www.flamingpear.com/tesselation.html[/url]

>At this point I'm thinking that I should just
> work them up in Front Page or Go Live and be done with it.

Neither Front Page or Go Live are graphic packages, I lose your logic here!

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Japes
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