1. The background serves as the bottom layer of a page. Icon Descriptions.
2. 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.
3. White: Set the background color to white.
4. Recolor: Recolor the currently applied background image. Effects – Apply an effect to the current background image.
5. Tile: Makes a smaller repeating tile pattern of the current background image.
6. Custom: Select an image file from your computer to use as a background.
7. Mirror: Flip the background horizontally.
8. Flip: Flip the background vertically.
9. Left: Rotate the background image 90 degrees to the left. Right – Rotate the background image 90 degrees to the right.
10. Remove- Deletes the current background.
11. Apply: Applies the current background to all other pages in the project.
12. Opacity: Drag the slider left or right to increase or decrease the background transparency.

Fig 10.9: Backgrounds

1. You can set the background to be a color, paper, or image.
2. 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.
3. If you export your page as JPG or PDF and have not set a background it will default to a white background.