Working with text and images: How to add a CSS gradient overlay to a background image

Published: 12 August 2021
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Learn about the CSS background-image property. Click “show more” for links to extra resources and examples.

Codepen example: https://codepen.io/christinatruong/pe...
How to use CSS text-shadow:    • How to use the CSS text-shadow proper...  
Bonus HTML & CSS Overview video:    • Video  
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Colour tools: https://colours.neilorangepeel.com, https://rgb.to
CSS color property:   / the-color-and-property-values  
CSS gradient function: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 How to choose an image
0:50 Edit images in Photoshop
2:10 Codepen example
2:30 color and text-shadow
3:28 background-color
7:18 background-image
10:00 Longhand vs shorthand syntax

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