Picture as Menu Background in Adobe Photoshop

[boofer]

I do not know step one of using Adobe Photoshop. I have a huge but probably easy question to answer. I want to use a picture for the menu background. I go to File>New and select the NTSC "template." Now, I have tried a gazillion ways and read hours of tutorials. HOW DO I GET A PICTURE AS THE BACKGROUND?

[guns1inger]

You click on File->Open and open your file into a new image in photoshop. Press ctrl+A (Select All) and then Edit -> Copy. Switch to your empty NTSC template image, and click on Edit -> Paste. Flatten the iamge so you have only one layer (called Background) and your image will be in it.

[boofer]

Thanks guns1inger. That worked.

Now, is there any way to have the picture automatically resized to fit? When I did as you said, it only filled the "template" with a segment of my picture.

[guns1inger]

So you have never used Photoshop before, right ? You will have to scale the image top fit.