Select an Image File in the Background Edit Dialog Box

Rendering

To set a photograph as background, or to add a photograph to the background or foreground library, select the image file as follows:

  1. Click File name.
  2. Select the image file 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.
  3. Confirm by clicking OK.