Change background color behind banner image

Hi everyone,

My main content's background colour is a very light grey, on the whole website. Yet, when I add a banner image to an index page, I can clearly see that the background turns to black behind the image. (default colour from my template - Pedro, Brine family). It means the page is black until image loads..

Anyone knows how I can fix this?

It doesn't look like there is any easy way to do this in the Design panel so I'm thinking some sort of code with my background colour's hex code and important! but I don't know the rest of the code I would need.. 🙂

Thank you!

Can you share link to your site?

It's not live yet, but the description above should be plenty!

1 hour ago, Lau_Lau said:

the description above should be plenty

@tuanphan is correct. We really need it to view the actual page if we are to provide a working solution first time around. Without a site/page URL the community will find it difficult to help and your question may go unanswered. 

If your site isn't live yet, you can share it with us by setting a site password and sharing it here. Please read the [forum guidelines][1].
 

Thanks Paul, but I have a Coming Soon page that unfortunately gets de-activated if I set up a password-protected site, which I don't want to happen..

If you have a coming soon page then your site is public. You just need to share the url. 

ahhhh, ok thanks for this 🙂

Here it is then:

https://quiet-ly.com/home

Please be aware it's a work-in-progress

Hi @Lau_Lau

Select a page with banner and open Site Styles.

Go to MAIN: OVERLAY > Overlay Color (below 'enable parallax').

Set your light grey color and drag the bottom slider left to transparent.

Thank you @MagneM but it's already like that and the black still appears..

Anything else I can try?

Sorted! Thanks @MagneM it worked. I had missed something out

I am having this same issue except I don't know how to get the grey where the background image is to either go away or be black when people first land on my site. The image is under 1MB and the width is 2500px, which is the max suggested width by Squarespace, so image size shouldn't be the issue.

Here's my site: https://www.jacobtstone.com/

I have attached screenshots too.

On 8/19/2020 at 2:30 AM, jacobstonefilms said:

I am having this same issue except I don't know how to get the grey where the background image is to either go away or be black when people first land on my site. The image is under 1MB and the width is 2500px, which is the max suggested width by Squarespace, so image size shouldn't be the issue.

Here's my site: https://www.jacobtstone.com/

I have attached screenshots too.

It is default colr when the picture has not been loaded. You can just change that color. Do you want to change color?