Here´s another site with great use of photographic background
http://www.phillipsdepury.com/

These sites are amazing. Does anyone know where you can find a tutorial on how to build a site such as these?

Great post. I love photographic backgrounds too. Here's a couple more - these are all photography sites so in a way they are backgrounds as well as main content;

http://www.letstakepictures.info/index.php

http://www.cake-factory.com/#/home/

http://www.brook-pifer.com/

really good links thanks, its a shame there arent more websites like this that arent using flash. id like to see how theyd turn out

Ruby Tuesday's uses this new trend.
Looks great, and i love their "loader" for the background image too.

http://www.rubytuesday.com/agreenruby/

I would love some how-to's also regarding this technique.

here's my website with photo-bg i hope u'll enjoy it! :D

http://www.luckyday.it

Amazing list! The hardest in this art is to do it in XHTML/CSS: it's easier in Flash because it fits to your screen, but in usual ways...

i've done a site a year ago or so with a photographic background: www.neliamusic.de/site
cheers!

Hi!

One of my fav trends. I don't know tuts, but there are only a few specialities for this style. At publishing set the flash content to 100% width/height, set the Stage.align to "TL" (for example - to align the origo at top-left), set the background photo's width to Stage.width, and to constrain proportions set the other dimension to the resized dimensions _x/yscale. Done:) If needed, i'll add a "site" template to Flashden.

My latest site (at the company i work) based on this style was Retro jeans, visit it at http://www.retrojeans.com

Nie bg photo makes sites looks hot and its pretty easy way to make them look nice)

Very Nice! Very Creative Websites.. I think it will take month's to finish one of those..

I also love this trend. great selections in your post!
i know that the H&M website also does this: www.hm.com

Both thenorthface.com and jansport.com have recently relauched with photographic background sites. The scaling technique for different resolutions and even browser window resizing is really nice.

Nice post! I like the concept of using a large background image very much! Although I'm not a flash supporter... With a css based site it's a bit more difficult but with the help of some javascript a lot can be done!

Here's how to do this in CSS if anyone's interested.

http://css-tricks.com/how-to-resizeable-background-image/

These are great selections. I particularly like Signal 7.

great work. congratulations. best: #3 (the blue)...pure inspiration.

Very good collection, thanks!

another good usage of fullscreen web site;

http://www.carmikliyapi.com

tutorial please :(