For a good introduction to getting the most out of Photoshop, you might
want to take a look at Photoshop 7 For Dummies by Barbara Obermeier and
Deke McClelland (Wiley Publishing, Inc.).
Here’s the code that produces the results shown in Figure 7-17, with a back-
ground image created in a graphics application and foreground text superim-
posed on the image:
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {background: white url(“pebble.jpg”) repeat;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<IMG src=”headlines.jpg”>
<DIV style=”top: 390px; left: 85px; position: absolute;font:
32px;” >THIS TEXT IS ON TOP OF THE IMAGE...</DIV>
</body>
</html>
Figure 7-17:
Special text
effects like
large initial
characters
and drop
shadowing
are more
easily
accom-
plished in a
graphics
program.
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