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Originally Posted by MiniMouse
If PIXLR is too slow from your side of the world, I can understand if you want to try other programs. However I wanted to add that you can change the size of your first layer also more directly in PIXLR. Go to 'Image' on the toolbar and select 'Image size', there you will see the pixel size of your picture (Weidth/Height). You can change the size there and even unable 'Constrain proportions'. BUT it will only work for the whole picture (with all layers in it).
Didn't tell you that because I thought you would start with one of my linen covers and they have all the same size. So it was more about how to change the size of the second layer. Didn't want to make it too complecated but maybe I should have told you that too. 
I will start on making you some textures (without a book margin) 
MiniMouse |
@MiniMouse - I'm attaching a zip, the background and foreground I selected and the result. What seems to happen in PIXLR and Paint is that the 'canvas' (I think that's what its called) expands to accommodate the biggest picture but if you resize that picture so that its smaller than the other picture the canvas doesn't shrink. Then when I save the result I have an image as big as Mother Russia - that mainly looks like Russia in Winter - white.
I can over come the difficulty by ensuring that the foreground picture is not larger then the background
Re the sluggish response - it was sluggish, but not due to me being a where I am, its the nature of "the beast" we call the the internet.
Re more backgrounds - I like bright colours, strange shapes, art-deco style, maybe you could draw inspiration from Clarice Cliff ceramics. I'm not so keen on the 'olde worlde retro leather look' - I get all I need of that when I look in the mirror
Akkadian and Assyrian clay tablets could provide an interesting basis for your textures.
BR