Background Color
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Usage: `background_color(color)`

Description
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The background_color filter sets the background layer to the specified color.
This is specifically useful when converting transparent images (PNG) to JPEG

Arguments
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-  ``color`` - the color name (like in HTML) or hexadecimal rgb expression
   without the "#" character (see
   `<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors>`_  for example). If color is
   "auto", a color will be smartly chosen (based on the image pixels) to
   be the filling color.

Example
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The original image is:

.. image:: images/dice_transparent_background.png
    :alt: Original picture

::

    http://localhost:8888/unsafe/fit-in/300x300/filters:background_color(blue)/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fthumbor%2Fthumbor%2Fraw%2Fmaster%2Fdocs%2Fimages%2Fdice_transparent_background.png

.. image:: images/dice_blue_background.png
    :alt: Picture after the background_color(blue) filter

::

    http://localhost:8888/unsafe/fit-in/300x300/filters:background_color(f00)/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fthumbor%2Fthumbor%2Fraw%2Fmaster%2Fdocs%2Fimages%2Fdice_transparent_background.png

.. image:: images/dice_red_background.png
    :alt: Picture after the background_color(f00) filter

::

    http://localhost:8888/unsafe/fit-in/300x300/filters:background_color(add8e6)/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fthumbor%2Fthumbor%2Fraw%2Fmaster%2Fdocs%2Fimages%2Fdice_transparent_background.png

.. image:: images/dice_lightblue_background.png
    :alt: Picture after the background_color(add8e6)