Adding backgrounds

A background in StoryTribe is either the canvas colour or an ordinary image object sitting behind everything else. There is no separate background layer, which is why you can treat a backdrop like any other picture: crop it, adjust it, or swap it.

A colour

1. Click the swatch at the canvas edge (tooltip Background color).
2. Pick from the palette, use the eyedropper, or set the opacity slider. The default is white; transparent is allowed, which matters for PNG exports.

A photo or drawing

1. Search and open Images for a stock photo, or use Add › Upload for your own (JPG, PNG, SVG or WebP). Click to place it.
2. Resize it to fill the frame, then right-click and choose Send to back (or press [ ) so characters sit on top. Lock it (⌘ Shift L) if you keep grabbing it by accident.

Generated with Tribe AI

Describe the setting in Tribe AI and generate. A result with a background placed from the tray is scaled to fill the frame as a backdrop; a result generated with No background arrives as a cut-out you can place like a prop.

Changing or removing it

Select the image and press Backspace to remove it, or place a new one and send it to the back. If you can't click it because something covers it, pick it in the Layers panel.