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Pattern & Backdrop

Generate backgrounds for slides and frames and place them on the board as images. Pick blobs, waves, layered peaks, a mesh gradient, blurred orbs, circle scatter, a dots grid, stripes, Truchet tiles, topography lines, an isometric grid or confetti. Choose a size or match a selected frame, one of 12 palettes or your own colours, then tune complexity, scale, softness, grain and background. Shuffle for a new take, fill a selected frame, and edit a placed backdrop later.

Pichaya Puttekulangkura
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Pattern & Backdrop

Make backgrounds for slides, frames and covers in a few clicks, from soft mesh gradients to topography lines. Place one on your Drawdy board, or fill a frame so it fits its exact shape.

What it's for

  • Slide backgrounds that fit each frame's shape and rounded corners.
  • Covers and section headers that make a board look finished.
  • Social and banner graphics, with story, square and banner sizes ready to go.
  • Matching sets: the same settings always draw the same picture, so a whole deck can share one look.

How to use

  1. Click the Pattern & Backdrop button on the right of the board.
  2. Pick a pattern: Blobs, Waves, Layered peaks, Mesh gradient, Blurred orbs, Circle scatter, Dots grid, Stripes, Truchet tiles, Topography, Isometric grid or Confetti.
  3. Click Shuffle until you like what you see.
  4. Choose a size, a palette and a background colour.
  5. Click Place on board. Or select a frame and click Fill selected frame: the backdrop fills the frame behind everything inside it.
  6. To change a backdrop later, select it, click Edit selected, then Update on board.

Options

  • Size: 16:9, 4:3, Square, Story, Banner, A4, or Match frame for the shape of the frame you last selected.
  • Palette: 12 ready-made palettes, or Custom with 2 to 6 colours of your own. Picking a palette also sets a background that suits it.
  • Background: white, warm white, light grey, near black, black or any colour.
  • Complexity, Scale and Softness adjust each pattern in its own way, and Grain adds a film-like texture.
  • Stripes have an Angle, and Truchet tiles come as Quarter arcs or Diagonals.

Tips

  • Filling a frame again replaces its backdrop instead of adding a second one.
  • Backdrops are saved as image files, like pasted pictures, so they don't slow the board down.
  • ⌘Z or Ctrl+Z takes a backdrop back, from the panel too. When filling a frame needs two undo steps, the panel tells you.

Privacy

  • Nothing loads from the network. Every pattern is drawn in the panel, and only the finished image goes onto the board.
  • Your settings are saved for next time.

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