Changing the background

With Xara LX you can create bitmaps that are anti-aliased to a background. This means the drawing blends seamlessly with the background and avoids any obvious border around the edge of the bitmap. To make this easier, you can give the Xara LX background the same background as the final web page will have.

You can use either a flat color or a bitmap as the background. You can use any color in the Color Gallery (including those in other documents) for a background color or create a custom color. You can use any bitmap in the Fill or Bitmap Gallery as a background. Bitmaps are automatically tiled if necessary, exactly as they are in web browsers.

Using a color as a background

1. Open the Color Gallery.

2. Click on the color you want as your background. This selects the color.

3. Click the Background button.

Use a bitmap as the background

1. From the Utilities menu choose either Clipart Gallery or Fill Gallery.

2. Select the bitmap you want to use.

3. Click the Background button in the gallery.

Tips

You can also drag the color from the Color Gallery or a bitmap onto the background of the page whilst holding down the CTRL key.

Use the Color Editor to create a custom color. Create the color you want and then CTRL+drag the color patch in the Color Editor onto the background of the page.

Immediately after applying a background color you can use the Color Editor to modify it. You can do this until you use the Color Editor to edit another color.

To set the background back to white, right-click on the page and select Default Page Background.

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Related Topics

Color Editor

Color Gallery

Bitmap Gallery

Background