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Using a background on a banner
If you've got a favourite background on your web pages, you may want to use it as the background to your banner, here's how you do it. First of all open a new image, 16 million colours, 400 x 40 in size. Also open your background tile and choose "Colours", "Increase Colour Depth" then "16 Million Colours". Here's my background.

Select your background by clicking on its title bar, then click on the "Select" tool (next door but one to the magnifying glass on your menu bar). Start at the very left side of your background and pull out a box, take note of the figures in the bottom left corner of your screen. These will change as you pull out your box, the figures we are interested in are the ones to the right of the "=" sign, you need to pull out a box the complete width of the background, and 40 deep. This is how my background looked with the area I'm going to use selected.

Select "Edit" then "Copy" from the top menu. Next select your banner by clicking on its title bar, then select "Edit", "Paste" then "As New Selection". You should now have the area of your background inside your banner, and you should be able to move it around. Place it at the left hand end of your banner, and right click to paste it into place. If you make a mistake you can select "Edit" and "Undo" to make it moveable again. This is how it should look when you've pasted the first piece into place.

Once you've pasted your first piece into place, select "Edit" then "Paste", "As New Selection". You should now have a second piece of background within your banner that you can move around. Move it to the left and place it next to the original piece. Sometimes you may have to place it overlapping the original piece to make it look correct. As long as it's slowly filling the banner then that's fine. Here's my banner with my second piece pasted.

Now simply repeat the procedure above until the whole of your banner is full (mine's below), finally select "Colours", "Decrease Colour Depth", then "256 Colours" and save the file.

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