torn paper edge look?

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torn paper edge look?

Is it at all possible to have a look like on this website, with using iWeb? http://trupianos.net
I really like that torn paper look, and was thinking how to do that. Make it in Photoshop, then use a shape? Would that make the download really slow? It's already pretty slow, and I'm trying to figure out how to streamline it a bit.

iMac intel 20", Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jul 29, 2008 4:38 PM

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Jul 29, 2008 5:00 PM in response to heart dog

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Jul 30, 2008 2:06 AM in response to  Certified

I know how to do Photoshop stuff. What I want to know is how to make a created graphic like that work in iWeb, so that it looks similar to that site. So the middle portion, the body in the iWeb site has that torn edge.

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Kyn Drake

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Jul 30, 2008 4:36 AM in response to heart dog

If you look at my site

http://www.makentosh.com

you'll see a gradient on the left and the right (simulating light shone from the margins).

That's done by creating one thin strip

http://www.makentosh.com/tipsfromtheiceberg/Blog/Blog_files/Picture%2069.png

and using it for my background image as a tiled image. You'd want to do something similar, but make the image tall enough so that repeating isn't as obvious.

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Jul 31, 2008 12:07 AM in response to Kyn Drake

Thanks. Ah yeah, my home page has a strip, though it's the whole background. I can see how I can do this by matching the black of the outer part, and then making my shape. Cool, but one bummer, you can't have a bottom or a top part. If I did it as a shape, would it make the load a lot slower, I wonder?

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Kyn Drake

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Jul 31, 2008 7:12 AM in response to heart dog

You can't place a separate image as the background in those areas but you CAN place artwork there so that it still looks like the bottom and top have edges. That's how some of the themes at 11mystics.com are designed.

Yes, doing it as a shape would make the load longer because it'd likely be converted to a heavyweight .png image. Using your own .jpg should load much faster (my background WAS a .jpg at one point, I'll have to change that back someday 🙂

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