Making Your Own Custom Blog Background

Here's one way to make your own background for your blog.

Select a suitable image, this one came from our trip to Birmingham, the wall by the canal that Steve made us photograph because he liked the texture.

Open it in Photoshop and select the crop tool.

Set the crop size to 1800px  X  1600px (pixels) this is the max size for the background image.

Make your crop selection and confirm.

Save As (in a place you can find it) your picture at a quality setting that makes it below 300K in the Image Options box.

Sign in to your blog and go to the dashboard.

Go into Design>Template Designer>Background

Click on the side arrow alongside the Background Image box.

You can then upload the image by browsing for it. 

Taking the tick out of the 'scroll with page' box means the background picture stays where it is as your blog text scrolls up and down.

I like my wooden planks and I like my flaking paint, but which one is better? There's only one way to find out.Fi i i i i i i i ight!