© 1996 by Matt Giwer, 1/29 Like the background here?       I don't care if you hate it. Lots of the professional looking sites use things like this. It is the company name or logo. Admitted, it is not best used on a page of pure text. So how do you make it?
      It is not an emboss, it is a texture as in Gallery Effects #2 or in PhotoStyler. Maybe I am the only one who spent months trying to figure out how to do it with emboss. Making them is a lot faster than it took me to realize what it was.
      First decide how big you want it on the screen and the spacing. Open two windows of a size to make that work out the way you want. You do it this way as a small master will be tiled by the tool as many times as it takes to fill the screen and will not match the bottom and right edges when the browser tiles the final product again.
      Make up your logo or name or whatever you like on one of the screens. The colors are not important. Save it in TIFF format. Color the second screen whatever you would like it to be as the background color for web page.
      Now invoke the texture tool. Go to the options and where it lets you choose a TIFF file to use choose the first one you created. Apply it. You now have that subtle and professional look.
      I presume there are more things that can be done. I have not had a need for enough of them to play around with the variations possible with the tool to see if more can be done.
      For use on a website save it as a JPEG or GIF with modest to low quality. With all the untextured space it compresses greatly and is certainly in the size range of some of the more complicated small squares. The one for this page is a JPEG with a size of 2,725 bytes. The usual type of background tile averages around 2500.