How to overlap an image so that is behind text? (transparent image)

Question

I was wondering if I can force an image to be behind the text; without affecting the text. Or the other way around which is to place the text on top of the image.

Here are the examples of my trials:

\begin{figure}[h!]
    \begin{center}
    \resizebox{1\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{Figures/Chapter_3/browserWindow}}
    \end{center}
\end{figure}

I also tried \begin{figure}[htb], and \begin{figure}[H]. I tried following this suggestion but nothing happens so I use the regular way of creating a figure. notice that the middle of the figure is also transparent. Also as you can see from the size of the figure is not matching with the \textwidth. How to adjust this so that the lines of the window frame would match the \textwidth?

\begin{figure}[htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 1\textwidth]{Figures/Chapter_3/browserWindow}
\end{figure}

Here is he demo and in case you want to work with the image here is a link.

UPDATE:

    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
    \node[opacity=1,inner sep=0pt] at (current page.center) {%
        \includegraphics[%
            width=0.82\paperwidth,%
            height=0.43\paperheight%
        ]{Figures/Chapter_3/browserWindow}%
    }; %--- Including the background picture
    \end{tikzpicture}

Is there a way to adjust the position so that it can at the beginning of the chapter?

FINAL SOLUTION:

Thanks to @Marian G's answer, I was able to adjust this as I wanted. I simply used this:

\includegraphics[%
    width=1.15\textwidth,
    height=0.83\textwidth,
    align=t,
    smash=br,
    vshift=1cm,     % adjust the vertical position
    hshift=-1.5cm     % adjust the horizontal position
]{Figures/Chapter_3/browserWindow}%

Some text in the paragraph.

\vskip 0.2in %I had to use some space because the images was overlapping.

\begin{figure}[htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth{Figures/Chapter_3/technology_icons}
    \caption{Technologies used : (a) HTML5, (b) CSS3, (c) JavaScript with external libraries} 
    \label{fig:htmlIcons}
\end{figure}

If you wish to add a specific text on top of the image the following might be interesting: How to superimpose LaTeX on a picture? If this is more about a background like image, maybe the following might suit your needs: How to use background image in LaTeX? — leandriis, Apr 22 '19 at 16:32
@JouleV, this works fine. a tiny issue tho. I tried working with the \tikz[overlay, remember picture] \draw [darkpowderblue, thick] ([xshift=0.5cm,yshift=-0.5cm]current page.north west) rectangle ([xshift=-0.5cm,yshift=0.5cm]current page.south east); %---making a coloured box but nothing changes. — Loizos Vasileiou, Apr 22 '19 at 17:09
@LoizosVasileiou That is only to put a box in the page. You don't need it here. — , Apr 22 '19 at 17:12
I also tried (current page.north) but now its at the top. Again this is not where i want it positioned. I'm trying to work on this suggestion — Loizos Vasileiou, Apr 22 '19 at 17:14
So basically you just wanted to remove the white space at the top of your image. \includegraphics has a [clip=true, trim=...] option for that. — John Kormylo, Apr 22 '19 at 21:50

Marian G. · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-22T18:10:25.910

The following approach doesn't use tikz macros and can be of your interest. As far as I understand your claim, I will present a solution based on the package graphbox that enables to add some keys to the usual \includegraphics-command.

Code

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphbox}   % allows to add keys to \includegraphics
\usepackage{lipsum}     % only for testing purposes


\begin{document}

\section{My dummy title}
%-----------------------
\lipsum[1]


\section{Another title}
%-----------------------
\includegraphics
    [%
    width=\textwidth,
    align=t,
    smash=br,
%   hide,           % hides graphics (if required)
%   vshift=-1cm     % adjust the vertical position
    ]
    {example-image}%% add your graphics file
\lipsum[2-4]

\end{document}

Output

This works great thanks a lot for your answer. I updated the final solution to my question — Loizos Vasileiou, Apr 22 '19 at 20:46

How to overlap an image so that is behind text? (transparent image)

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