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CSS Tricks: Background ImagesToday's CSS Trick will be about using background images in Journal Skins.
There are three types of images that are mostly used in journals skins: big background images, seamlessly repeatable patterns and icon/logo-like images.
Images can be used for all elements of a journal: in the header, footer, behind text, next to text etc.. Any journal element has the ability to contain an image
I cannot stress enough that the main objective of a journal is making written content enjoyable to read. It is all about readability and making it as easy for the reader as possible. Very often I come across pretty journal skins, that have a complete lack of readability. In one of my previous CSS Tricks I already mentioned the dangers of text lengths and how to limit the .text width to improve readability.
Problems with using images:
Despite being big an images turns out to be too small for a journalAn image does not repeat seamlesslyText becomes non-re

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Winter Textures Stockby ^pica-ae

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Non-competitive entry for the Texture Your World Contest hosted by the amazing stock CVs ^Elandria and ^PirateLotus-Stock
Not in the competition because I knew about the theme before the contest was launched

So I am at an unfair advantage. The contest idea sounded like so much fun tho, that I couldn't resist creating something myself

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It's winter, so my world is currently cold and frozen

I tried to create textures that imitate ice, snow and snowfall. I was gonna go with different kinds of snow at first, but decided to reduce my current obsessions to as little as possible

100% Digital from Scratch, created in Photoshop.
Each texture is only 1400 × 1000 px at 72 dpi

Sorry about that, I kinda forgot that stock needs to be bigger to be really useful when creating these.

They should still be good to use for Journal Skins or Webdesign or just generally smaller artworks

The attached .ZIP file contains the preview image as uploaded and each texture in its own file. So you don't have to cut them out of the tryptich

I hope you like them either way

Stock Rules:

free to use for non-commercial works | send me a link to your artwork
please ask permission for commercial works | send me a note with your request
do not sell, copy, transmit or distribute without my permission | send me a note with your request
you are free to alter, transform, or build upon this work | but respect the creators rights

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