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In this module, you will learn how to change the design and background of the entire diagram.

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To change the theme and/or the background of the drawing:

Click on the Design Menu. You can then pick a theme, and then customize the theme with the variants. You can also change the background of the drawing by clicking on the Background icon.

If you choose a background, you will then see the background tab and the bottom, from which you can further customize the background of the drawing without affecting the rest of the drawing. 

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  • 00:04 Let's talk about changing the background of your diagram.
  • 00:08 So, here's a diagram we've been working on throughout the entire lessons.
  • 00:12 And I'm going to go ahead and pick on the Design menu,
  • 00:14 and then I'll pick on the Backgrounds.
  • 00:18 Now you can pick one of these and it will just be a solid color.
  • 00:22 If you wanted to make sure you picked on different
  • 00:25 colors that I can pick on Background, and notice down here it says background color.
  • 00:30 So maybe we can go how about with a light green, and so forth, right?
  • 00:36 So, let's pick on Backgrounds again.
  • 00:39 So you can pick one of these.
  • 00:40 You can see how it's going to give it different variations.
  • 00:43 There's a map of the world that you can use as the background.
  • 00:48 Even with that,
  • 00:49 I picked the map of the world I can still pick on the background color, right?
  • 00:54 So you get some different effects there.
  • 00:57 So that gives us some choices to work with.
  • 01:01 Even this one is pretty interesting, right?
  • 01:05 Now, let me show you what happened.
  • 01:06 It actually added a new page down here that's called The Background.
  • 01:12 So that was not there before.
  • 01:14 I'm going to go ahead and click on that.
  • 01:16 And then this is just the background layer, so
  • 01:19 maybe you can add more things into the background here.
  • 01:22 So perhaps I would like to have maybe a picture, so I'll click on Insert.
  • 01:28 And then I'll click on picture and I'll go back and go get the plane for example.
  • 01:34 So I'm going to put that into the background,
  • 01:36 right, I'll put it onto the background page here.
  • 01:42 And notice how the plane is now part of the background, right?
  • 01:47 So it was just an example we could have used any picture.
  • 01:50 So what we did was we picked on the Design menu, and then I picked on Backgrounds.
  • 01:56 So then you can try different backgrounds there.
  • 01:59 Even when you choose one of those, you can choose the background color.
  • 02:03 So what that does is make this background page and then you can go to that and
  • 02:08 whatever you do to that will be the background.
  • 02:11 And you can actually enhance that in many different ways.
  • 02:14 So I'm actually going to remove that plane, it was just an example right?
  • 02:18 And then I'm going to go ahead and delete that.
  • 02:21 Now if I go back to page one, we see the original background.
  • 02:25 So hopefully that gives you an idea of how to work with your backgrounds.

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