Latex/Xelatex Watermarking

I was interested in getting a watermark to display on my thesis title page, but the documentation for the packages and examples were lacking.

Here's how to do it. Assuming your image is called 'ribs.png':

\usepackage{watermark}

in the preamble, then the following where you want the watermark.

\thiswatermark{%Put watermark on this page only
%\centering
\put(0,-660){\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{ribs}}
}

You use the coordinate arguments of '\put' to place it in the right position. For transparency, I just editted the image in The Gimp image editor. Simply go to Tools->Colour Tools->Levels and adjust the main bar.

My title page looks like:

HTH
Cheers
Shakes - L3mming