Backgrounds
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The background serves as the bottom layer of a page. Icon Descriptions.
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Add: Select a background paper to add your page. Color – Select a color to apply to as your background. Black – Set the background color to black.
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White: Set the background color to white.
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Recolor: Recolor the currently applied background image. Effects – Apply an effect to the current background image.
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Tile: Makes a smaller repeating tile pattern of the current background image.
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Custom: Select an image file from your computer to use as a background.
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Mirror: Flip the background horizontally.
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Flip: Flip the background vertically.
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Left: Rotate the background image 90 degrees to the left. Right – Rotate the background image 90 degrees to the right.
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Remove- Deletes the current background.
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Apply: Applies the current background to all other pages in the project.
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Opacity: Drag the slider left or right to increase or decrease the background transparency.
Fig 10.9: Backgrounds
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You can set the background to be a color, paper, or image.
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Projects start with a transparent checkered background, if you add objects to your page and export it as a PNG the exported image will only display the page objects added because the background is transparent.
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If you export your page as JPG or PDF and have not set a background it will default to a white background.