OK, I've narrowed down my images to three, and since then I've had a play on Photoshop with them to make them fit visually as a background. The process to change them was the same for all of them, one example:
This was the beginning image, I wanted to change the colour as I wasn't really keen on this 'Sepia' kind of tone...
So, in Photoshop I duplicated the image as a layer, and just had a play with colour balances to see if I found a colour I liked, which I did! Then, I added another layer, but placed this underneath the duplicated image then filled the layer in black with the Paint Bucket tool.
The reason I did this was because I wanted to change the opacity level in the new colour image. As beautiful as it is, I think that It's too bright and will attract too much attention away from the information displayed.
It's now gone from this...
To this!
The opacity level was changed to 50%, and I think it will work really well as a background. Here are the other 2 options:
Same Process, except with this one I changed to black and white, had a move about with the levels option to exaggerate the monochrome colours, then dropped the opacity to about 20%.
With this one, I left the colour as it was, and just changed the opacity to 25%.
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