I had a request approach me and am blanking on a smooth way to implement this. We have on content type that on occasion will have a background image in a a div. The image will be a washed out background image behind content. The content authors want to add this page by page using an Image Field.
How would you implement this?
I'm assuming I can do this through our custom theme -- perhaps a theme_preprocess_page() or theme_process_page()?
You could try BackgroundField:
BackgroundField started as an extension of the CCK ImageField that allows a CSS selector and background attributes to be set for a content-type. This is particularly helpful for allowing your node authors to add images to a node that are integrated into the theme of the site. With the inclusion of the Image field in Drupal 7, BackgroundField was rewritten to extend that core functionality.
I created a module to do that: Field Group Background Image
The idea is creating a div wrapper (with Field Group), specifying the image field of your content type as the background image.
