Tips for acquiring and using custom backgrounds

Here are some tips to using images as backgrounds

Google is a great place to start looking for beautiful background images. You can do a search for something like "Light Yellow Backgrounds" or "Dark wallpaper". Or, download images of your favorite artist, sports team, or vacation dream.
Vary the opacity settings of the image in the Chart Backgrounds indicator parameter settings. As you vary the opacity, you'll notice that the original chart background color is actually behind your chosen background image. 100% opacity will not allow any of the chart background color to come through.
To change the original chart background color to compliment your image, right click on the chart and select Properties. Change "Chart Background" to any color you'd like to show through your selected background image.

Below is the same image at 50% opacity with different colored chart backgrounds set inside the chart properties parameters.

Create your theme by copying one of NinjaTraders default themes (skins) and then edit the theme.
Use similar image types to the theme that was copied. For example, if you make a copy of the dark theme, use dark images for your background. This will insure that the fonts for that theme will be more legible on your custom background.

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