Placing a background image with text over it

Depending on how important the image is, can you do it with CSS.

CSS3 has an attribute called background-size:cover. This does not stretch the image,but it will scale it until it fits the whole area. Depending on the sizes some parts could be hidden.

w3schools on background-size

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