This page is intended to show some techniques for dealing with helping images that are smaller than the width of the page to use the remaining available space. If you know of any other good methods for doing this, please email me on nrkn at nrkn dot com.
This was created using the seamless tiling facility in Paint Shop Pro.
This was created by laying the leftmost edge of one copy of the image over the rightmost edge of another copy of the image and then selectively removing sections of the top layer so that they appear to join seamlessly.
If you use PNG to do this, you can take advantage of PNG's alpha transparency to lay the same picture over any tiled background.
This can be a very useful technique but does not work particularly well with the image above. A much better example of this technique using a more suitable image can be found at the top of this page.
Once again the example image does not particularly suit this technique. A much better example of this technique using a more suitable image can be found in the banner at the top of this page.
This is a horizontal reflection fade, this effect is more visually
impressive when done vertically (which is outside the scope of this
example):