Creative Backgrounds
Add generated gradients, patterns, textures, and landscapes to scenes and layouts, and recolor them to match your lesson.
Creative backgrounds give a scene a polished visual setting without finding or uploading an image. Choose a curated style, then use Randomize composition to create a new variation of that style.
You can add a creative background to either a scene or a layout. A background on a layout is especially useful when several scenes should share the same visual world.
Choose a background
- Select a scene or layout in the studio.
- Open Background in the properties panel.
- Select Creative background.
- Browse the gallery by family: Gradients, Patterns, Textures, Light & depth, Nature, or Playful.
- Select a style and choose Apply background.
The gallery includes calm gradients, dot and blueprint grids, paper textures, topographic lines, flowing waves, dimensional light and glass, abstract shapes, starfields, confetti, repeating icon patterns, and generated landscapes: rolling and autumn hills, mountain ranges by day or night, desert dunes, an ocean horizon, and a pine forest.
Make a variation
Select Randomize composition to move the shapes, marks, particles, light, or landscape, or to turn a gradient, while preserving the style's colors and character. The result is saved with the lesson, so learners see the same composition you approved.
Evenly repeating styles such as Dot grid, Notebook paper, Fine film, and Cloud pattern look the same however they are arranged, so they don't offer Randomize.
Use Intensity when the visual elements compete with your lesson content. Lower intensity keeps the style but makes its decorative layers quieter.
Change the colors
Gradient and blended styles show a row of Colors swatches. Select a swatch to pick a new color, for example your school colors or the palette of your lesson's theme. Once you've changed a color, Reset colors appears; select it to go back to the style's original colors.
Backgrounds stay still
Creative backgrounds never move, so nothing competes with your lesson content. To add movement, use widget effects or a celebration instead.
Use a background on a layout
A scene with no creative background of its own inherits the background from its applied layout. Add one to a layout when a group of scenes should share it, then edit that layout once to update every scene using it.
Adding a creative background directly to a scene overrides the layout's creative background for that scene. Removing the scene's creative background reveals the layout background again.
Combine it with color or an image
Creative backgrounds are layered over the existing scene color and background image. The color remains a useful fallback and can influence transparent parts of a generated style. If an uploaded image and a generated style are both present, preview the result to make sure the combination stays readable.
Keep text and interactive controls easy to distinguish from the backdrop. Lower the intensity or choose a calmer preset when the background makes the activity harder to scan.