Album DS Backgrounds

Backgrounds are the files stored in subfolders of the Backgrounds folder, you may create your own folder for your preferred or own backgrounds.

The background files used in Album DS are of 2 types:

- PSD files which contain a tiled background, a design to be placed repetitively in your document. The design is only placed once in the background PSD file included as pattern overlay and Photoshop will copy it as many times as needed when you double click at the thumbnail in PSD. This type of backgrounds can slightly be scaled using Photoshop Layer – Scale options. If you want to create your own tiled backgrounds please open one of the provided and replace the design with your own, then save using Photoshop’s saving features and create a 100×100 pixels thumbnail with the same name.

Using tiled backgrounds in Album DS

- JPG files, a picture, drawing or design large enough to fill your sheets or album pages. You only need to open the document in Photoshop and select the option Sheet – Save as background in Album DS, you have to select one of the subfolders of Backgrounds to save it and Album DS will automatically create the thumbnail.

A JPG file for Album DS background

Placing a background in your sheet or album page is easy, just select it at the Album DS window and double click the thumbnail ;)   Sometimes you may have other layers hidding it, in this case just drag the layer to the correct position in Photoshop’s layer palette.

Remember, fi you change the color fill layer blending mode to HUE you may change the color of the background easily, to do so please double click the color fill layer in Photoshop’s layer palette, select your color and change the blending mode at the top of the palette to HUE.

Changing background color