Open Adobe Photoshop CS5 and open or create the image that you want to fade. Double-click the "Background" layer on the "Layers" palette and then click "OK" to unlock the layer.

Microsoft is testing yet another variation for its favicons in the Bing Search snippets. This one uses a dark gray background, with a circle formatted favicon, next to the search result snippets.

Type "solid gray" or "solid black," depending upon how dark you want the background to be, and then press Enter. 4. Select a background image and then click Insert .