Title: Background
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Background

 *  [cjwilkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjwilkes/)
 * (@cjwilkes)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-16/)
 * So I have my own image for a background and it repeats itself on my blog until
   you get 3/4’s the way through and it no longer does. It goes to the default color.
   I am using an SLR template. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
 * Anyhow, if you want to check it out and tell me what you think I woudl love knowing
   what I can do to fix this:
 * [http://www.CJWilkes.com/blog](http://www.CJWilkes.com/blog)
 * I just think it looks tacky that it cannot go the full distance and keep repeating.
 * Thank you,
 * Joy

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 *  [ZÆN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaen/)
 * (@zaen)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-16/#post-2407735)
 * Joy, I think the background you are talking about the textured blue image with
   the orange flourishes? I tested in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and it does go
   all the way down for me. However, it takes a very long time to load, which I 
   think might be related to what you’re experiencing.
 * Your background image is nearly 3MB, which, generally speaking, is extremely 
   large. It might solve your problem to dramatically reduce the file size, or consider
   altering the dimensions so that a much smaller graphic is tiled. I can try to
   help you optimize the graphic if you like.
 *  Thread Starter [cjwilkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjwilkes/)
 * (@cjwilkes)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-16/#post-2407736)
 * Ok… I thought I had reduced the size by pxls. so instead of 300 or 600 dpi – 
   bringing it down to 72 dpi. I guess I need to go check on that again. Thank you
   so much!!!! Do you know what I would need to set it at at 72 dpi in size to keep
   the same look essentially?
 *  [ZÆN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaen/)
 * (@zaen)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-16/#post-2407738)
 * 72 dpi is right. Really there isn’t a ‘right’ size, but optimizing your graphics
   will help your site load much faster, which is really nice.
 * Generally, I would consider 200 KB a pretty big graphic. Your image is 2.85 MB
   which is about 2,900 KB – so to my personal tastes, you’d need drastic reduction.
   I would recommend first cropping the image in 1/2 vertically, so the dimensions
   are 2,000×1,000 instead of 2kx2k. Then if you have Photoshop you could export
   for web as JPEG at about 50% quality. That gets you down to something approaching
   6% the original size, which is awesome – but you do lose some quality. If you
   treat the top and bottom vertical edges so that they fade into a fuzzy turquoise(
   add some noise maybe) it would reduce the visible tiling between repeats.
 * There are other tricks you can use to keep the quality higher, like breaking 
   the image into left and right sides, thereby removing the section of graphic 
   that still has to load but gets covered by the web content area, but that would
   require modifications to your theme. Hope that’s helpful! Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [cjwilkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjwilkes/)
 * (@cjwilkes)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-16/#post-2407740)
 * Thanks – I think it is going to require some tweaking on my part. I don’t know
   why but in mozilla it only goes 3/4 still for me. Loads quickly but not all the
   way.
 * Thanks again – I appreciate all your help. 🙂

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