Background Types

Rendering

The background can be a plain color, graduated color, cloud or an image (photo).

Images

If you wish to set an image file as the background, select one of the following background types:

Scaled image - Select the type, when you wish to use your own photo as a background, see User's Own Photo to the Background Library. The image is scaled to fill the whole background.
Image - Depending on the size, the image can appear in the background several times.
Backfoto - A photograph on which a model can be positioned using pairs of points. See Position a Model on a Background Photo.
Scbackfoto - A photograph on which a model can be positioned using pairs of points. You can move and scale the photo relative to the model after the model has been positioned. See Position a Model on a Scalable Background Photo.

Enter the path of the image file as the value of the File name property in one of the following ways:

Select the location of the image file
1. Click the Select button. The Open dialog box opens. The default folder of rendering libraries is ../system/lw or ../shared/lw.
2. Go to the desired folder on the hard drive and select an image file (jpg, tif or bmp).
3. Click the Open button.
Enter the image file name and path
1. Set one of the following as the image file:
  - If the image file has been saved in the ../shared/lw folder, type the plain file name with quotation marks in the field, for example:
    "imagefile.jpg"
  - If the image file has been saved in a subfolder under the ../shared/lw folder, type folder/file name with quotation marks in the field, for example:
    "folder/imagefile.jpg"
  - If the saving location of the image file is something else, type the entire path with quotations in the field, for example:
    "D:/custom_backgrounds/photographs/imagefile.jpg"
2. Click the Set button.

Other backgrounds

Other background alternatives are: