Chapter 10: How to Make Photo Books | Use a Graphic as a Page Background?

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Use a Graphic as a Page Background?

To use Lightroom’s built-in page background graphics, go to the Background panel (in the right side Panels area), click on the little down-facing arrow to the right of the background image well, and a pop-up menu appears with different sets of background graphics for travel and wedding style books (along with any images you’ve used for backgrounds under the Photos set at the top). Once you have a graphic in place, you can change its opacity using the Opacity slider, and even change the color by clicking on the color swatch to the right of the Graphic checkbox (just click on that color swatch and the color picker appears. Click-and-drag the HEX slider on the far right up to the top, and now you can choose from a wide range of colors. Click your cursor inside the large gradient rectangle and your cursor changes into an eyedropper, so you can pick your color. Also, if you click-and-hold with the eyedropper, and keep holding down the mouse button, you can drag it outside the picker and over onto your image to choose a color from within the image itself, so your background graphic’s color perfectly matches the image on the page).