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If you are not a born designer, making background images for your web sites is always a headache. Since I felt lazy to always go to a designer, I found some online tools to do that for me. Hope they will help others like me as well. These low poly backgrounds were always fascinated me and wanted to use some in my web sites as well. These are some tools you can use to generate them without any effort. https://qrohlf.com/trianglify-generator/ http://alssndro.github.io/trianglify-background-generator/ http://matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/ https://msurguy.github.io/triangles/ Water pipes is another awesome artwork http://dragdropsite.github.io/waterpipe.js/ Since everybody is talking about material design lately this will be helpful. http://www.stringsistemas.com/materialgenerator.html Finally some CSS gradient generators http://www.webcore-it.com/colorful-background/# http://gradient.quasi.ink/

in Eclipse in NetBeans IDE If you are using Netbeans IDE or windowbuilder in Eclipse to develop Swing GUIs, you might wanted to set background images to jFrames. The easiest way is putting a jLabel to cover whole jFrame and set an image to it. It might be ok Absolute layout but if you are using  something like SpringLayout this will not work. And also there might be problems with re-sizing the jFrame. Instead of that what we are going to do is put a jPanel to cover up the whole jFrame and set a background image to it. in Eclipse WindowBuilder I have already installed WindowBuilder plugin in my Eclipse and created a java project. And I have created a new jFrame form with WindowBuilder. (If you are not familiar with eclipse and windowbuilder please google it and read first) Here is the code for MyFrame class which is automatically created by windowbuilder 1: package org.jframebg; 2: import java.awt.BorderLayout; 3: import java.awt.EventQ...