With the help of all of your Corel software, you've created the greatest background ever. It completely captures the essence of your subject matter (the Importance of the Grateful Dead, or the Timeless Philosophy of Being) but if you put text on top of this most excellent background, you will cause physical damage to your readers.

What to do? You don't want to lose detail, so futzing with the contrast or color balance won't help.

Open your file in Corel PhotoPaint. From the Effects menu, choose Mapping/Smoked Glass, (in Corel 5), or Fancy/Glass( in Corel PhotoPaint 6 or 7).The Smoked Glass filter uses the foreground color you have selected, and overlays your image with the color in whatever percentage you select.

For this example, I had white selected as the background. The result was the background on this page.

As with all filters, your file needs to be in 24 bit mode in order to use the filter. To save your file as a gif, you'll need to choose Image/Convert To/256 Colors, and then the best method to reduce color for WWW work is Error Diffusion, and Optimized Palette.