> Sure. I get that. (Although I don't possess a "paint program" to create 
> this image with in the first place... I'd have to write a custom program 
> to generate the pixels and write them to file, which is a little tedious.)

If you don't use any paint program yet, try the GIMP. It is free, can do 
much, and is available for almost any OS I know.

www.gimp.org

It is not my first choice because I do not like the interface. Since you 
don't use a paint program yet, this will be no problem. The GIMP should come 
in handy when post-processing povray images, too. ;-)

With the right plugins GIMP can do many interesting things to a picture... 
so sometimes I use it in spite of the interface. ;-)

If you want vector-images then inkscape looks promising. Not yet commercial 
grade stuff, mainly because it has not many export formats, but it is free 
and it imports PDF nicely. I think this is a program to watch.

BTW: if you want a >really< interesting background, then use an animated gif 
(but keep down the loops to a few, else the text becomes unreadable)

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