The image below has a kind of faded grey look with what seems to be some slight blurring and works quite well as a generic banner image.
Usually I am provided with these images or just find stock images but I'd be very interested in learning how to apply these effects with Photoshop or CSS. I have a feeling that Photoshop is a more appropriate tool.
The image I'm experimenting with is this:
It isn't the best image but for my testing purposes at least it's a similar shape and size.
I know I can use things like de-saturation or a coloured layer with a colour blend mode for this sort of thing. However, does the first image look like it has a specific effect or is it just a case of trial and error?
I appreciate this is similar to this question.
open your image in photoshop, add a new layer on top of the image, fill the layer with a color of your choice (in this case grey/black) then reduce the opacity of the layer. You will get something similar to what you want. This is a simple trick. It can be done in other ways too with more modifications.
Maybe you could get the effect by using css blur and overlaying the image with a gray layer with opacity.
You could also just create the effect in photoshop and use that
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I want to set background on my website like the one one tailwindcss.com. How can I accomplish this?
Tailwind Website
Still wondering how is this implemented.
Having inspected the Tailwind website for you, it appears they use a simple JPG image as the header background. Since it's not SVG, I can't know how it was made.
Another way to do this, a different approach to #Gugalcrom123's, is to use a css gradient.
Method 1. You can use a website such as this:
https://cssgradient.io/ to come up with the gradient and set that as a background. The website also generates you the code you can use to set it as the background, as well as a regular color fallback in case your browser does not support it. This is where Tailwind probably decided to use method 2.
Method 2. You can use GIMP, Photoshop or some similar drawing tool to draw a gradient, and put it as an image. You can also use Filter: blur() on the img in css to blur it with pixels or even use your drawing tool to blur it out! To make the grid, you can do a similar thing, except after drawing the grid, put it behind the gradient layer and set the gradient layer's opacity to something lower than 100%, so the grid shows behind it.
You can blur it using a filter: blur(10px); on CSS... But be careful, it might make your site slow.
Also, have a look at SVG FILTERS here: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/why-the-svg-filter-is-awesome/
I'm designing a website which uses a SVG-document as background. I want this image to tile on the X-axis. Which works great, but I wanted to know if it is possible to show one group in the SVG only once, such that in subsequent tiles the group is hidden.
The above image visualizes what I want to achieve. The image having one group (in the image the red circle) that is invisible in the following tiles.
Now I am aware such things can be achieved using additional CSS backgrounds but I am really interested if such thing could be achieved using a single SVG background.
Thanks in advance!
The answer is no. If you are relying on CSS to tile the background - ie. with repeat-x, then no. there isn't any way to do what you want. When an SVG is used as a background like that, it becomes immutable - effectively the same as a PNG or a JPEG.
You will need to use a different method.
I've been trying to recreate the random snow/star effect that's on this website , but I've had no luck..
I'm assuming this needs to be done in CSS, is there anyone who can help me write the code?
Thanks in advance!
Samoht
you have nothing show, but here is a short description
To create this effect, we’ll need three different “snow” graphics. These are transparent images of varying degrees of size and focus. We’ll overlay these three graphics on top of one another for a bit of depth.
Let’s style the background with these images. I’ve uploaded them to Imgur, feel free to use them.
Next, let’s create the keyframe. This is necessary to animate the background images as shown in the example down. If you’re read any of my posts before, you’re probably familiar with CSS Keyframes by now.
Our “snow” keyframe is slowly moving each background image independently of one another at different paces to create the awesome effect of snow falling.
You can change the speed or direction by modifying the background positions in the keyframe at 100%.
Demo w src: jsfiddle.net/orLgtgao/
Supposing that I have a polygon image PNG file like this (No border, the shape is filled with one color, no gradient, and background of the image is transparent) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/books/shapes/gifs/4.GIF
I'm thinking of using that polygon image as a background image and it will be changed (to another image with different color) when the user hovers on it.
But I also want the color of the background image to be customizable. So, I'm thinking if there is any possibility to draw the polygon instead of using image files so that the color will be customizable (I don't think it's a good idea to create one file for one color and so on so forth).
What is the best solution for this case? Using png or drawing it by css?
Is there a tool/website to convert my png to css code?
Make the white areas transparent (colour to alpha in GIMP)
Convert the image to a data URI (it's optional but it will make your site load faster)
Use the url in (2) as the background-image and use any background-color you want.
Use this to convert an image: http://codepen.io/blazeeboy/pen/bCaLE
I think it's much better to use converted images because browsers load them faster.
I think CSS is the wrong thing to use for this. Yes, it is possible to create a lot of shapes using CSS, but there are limitations, and in any case, drawing shapes with CSS is a bit of a hack, even when it's just a simple triangle.
Rather than CSS, I would suggest SVG is the appropriate tools for this job.
SVG is a graphics format for vector graphics that can be embedded in a site, and can be created or altered via Javascript directly within the site. Changing the colour and shape of a simple polygon is about as easy as it gets with SVG.
The other advantage of using SVG is that because it's a vector graphic, it's scalable, so you could display it at any size.
The only down-side of SVG is that it isn't supported by old versions of IE (IE8 and earlier). However, these browsers do support an alternative language called VML, and several good Javascript libraries exist which will work with either, thus allowing you complete cross-browser compatibility. The one I'd recommend is Raphael.js.
So a tiny (and very easy) bit of Javascript code instead of a very messy bit of CSS. Seems like a winner to me.
Maybe u could use this: https://javier.xyz/img2css/, the principle is to use box-shadow,it's fine if the picture is small, so u should consider performance
So I need some custom colors on a layout, but I'm looking for a better way of doing it other than just slapping a giant picture with (background: url(something.jpg)) in the layout.
Mostly I'm thinking of getting a color palette (i.e. from Adobe Kuler, colourlovers, etc.), getting a 5x5 sample of each color and sticking them in an array for CSS sprites or just as separate files and accessing them through: .color-one {transparent url(./one.gif) repeat} and just reusing that whenever I'd like to use the color.
Are there any drawbacks to doing it this way? And if there are should I just stick with web-safe colors or is there a better way of doing this?
You don't need graphics to represent background colors. You are going the long way around if you use images for that. Just use colors, as graphicsdivine suggests.
Only use background images if you need to do gradients and the like. That's really where they shine.
As to your second question, no, you don't need to stick with "web-safe" colors anymore. If someone in 2010 still only can display 256 colors, well, your site won't be their biggest problem.
.color-one{background-color: #f00}
.color-two{background-color: #0f0}
You have to set the colors as background-color anyway to serve readers which don't load images. So I see no use in those images.
And remember: the smaller an image is the more has the browser to compute to calculate all positions. Repeated background images should not be smaller than 20×20px.
Why don't set background-color?
(And your suggestion wouldn't work with sprites, the renderer will also use the other parts of the image)