New documents that you create in Microsoft Word have a white background color by default. Our guide continues below with additional information on how to change page color in Word, including pictures of these steps.ĭo you have pictures that are backwards in your documents? Then our article on how to mirror images on Google Docs can show you how to fix them. This is the 200 x 200 pixels image produced by the above method.3 Additional reading How to Change Background Color in Microsoft Word for Office 365 If the image shows seams or mirror 'reflections' go back to step 12. Generally a jpg saved with quality set to 0 (zero) will look OK as a background: Save the image as a jpg or gif ( File -> Save for Web…) depending on which gives the best result based on image size and quality. It may help to do this step with the image zoomed in (enlarged). Before use (or the copied area in later use) set the tool by option-clicking on an area away from the edges that you want to copy.

Select a size for the tool of about 45 with feathered edges. Use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove the seems and the mirror 'reflections': move the horizontally flipped layer to the right, the vertically flipped layer up, and the layer that was flipped both horizontally and vertically to the upper right corner (select the layer and use the move tool): Select a layer to flip:Īnd then use Edit -> Transform and choose either on, ' Flip Horizontal' or ' Flip Vertica l':ĭouble the size of the canvas to 200 x 200 pixels: Select Filter -> Render -> Clouds:īoost the contrast a bit ( Image -> Adjustments -> Brightness/Contrast…):įlop one copy horizontally, one vertically, and one both horizontally and vertically. Make some brown/cream variation by rendering clouds. It doesn’t matter which color the foreground and background are set to. Set the foreground and background colors to a medium brown and cream: The example creates a parchment-paper seamless-tile.Ĭreate a new document of 200 x 200 pixels: The how-to uses the 'duplicate and flip' method.

This how-to shows a method of creating seamless tiles for background textures. This how-to can be used from version 7 and up.

Photoshop: Create a Background using a Seamless Tile with a Parchment Texture

Parchment background for word document