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Two ways to create an image with a colour overlay in CSS

Ellen Macpherson on September 29, 2019

Using an image with a dark overlay is one of the quickest ways to make a beautiful hero header for a blog, landing page or portfolio. It's a trick ...
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sonawaneapekshit

We can also use a solution like below but it will require some what more CSS.
Here is the link: codepen.io/sonawaneapekshit/pen/Rw...

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Timonwa Akintokun

I have never thought about doing it this way b4. It's usually the two mentioned in the post. Thanks for sharing this.

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Efereyan Karen Simisola

This was so helpful to me Ellen. Thank you

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Damian Rozumek

The first method won't work. You have to position absolutely img or section tag. Otherwise the img will fit all the available space and push section tag with text out out the view.

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Grace Frank

yea, I tried it, the section was at the bottom. and now I have to give the section positioning

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Felippe Regazio

pretty cool, ellen!

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Ellen Macpherson

Cheers, Felippe!

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Abel Lifaefi Mbula

Typo: VIOLA, should be VOILA.

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Dom

I used this post today for a project! thanks Ellen

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Enieber Cunha

this solution is very elegant, thanks...

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WEPUKHULU TIMOTHY

How can you use it with a video background

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Ellen Macpherson

I don't work with videos too often, but theres a solution here: stackoverflow.com/questions/489620...

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mooktar

Thank you for this tutorial. It's very helpful πŸ‘

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Adi Sakti Jrs

Ah, genius! Big thanks

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Diogo Gaspar

Thank you, helped me a lot.

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C. Pure

Thanks for this post! I’m excited to try this out and spice up my portfolio site πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’»πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

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Stanley Bateswar

Cool!

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WEPUKHULU TIMOTHY

Lol

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GistKit.com

i have successfully applied this tutorial on my blog, gistkit.com.ng

Thanks for the helpful tutorial.

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Simel James

thanks for this

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David Proctor

I think using gradients like this can really cheer up a bad image.