Selecting an Image File in the Background/Foreground Edit dialog box

To set a photograph as background or foreground, or to add a photograph to the background or foreground library, select the image file in the dialog box as follows:

1. Click File name.
2. Select the image file in one of the following ways:
   • Select the location of the image file
     1. Click the Select button. The Open dialog box opens. The default folder of rendering libraries is ../system/lw or ../shared/lw.
     2. Go to the desired folder on the hard drive and select an image file (jpg, tif or bmp).
     3. Click the Open button.
   • Enter the image file name and path
     1. Set one of the following as the image file:
        • If the image file has been saved in the ../shared/lw folder, type the plain file name with quotation marks in the field, for example:

          "imagefile.jpg"

        • If the image file has been saved in a subfolder under the ../shared/lw folder, type folder/file name with quotation marks in the field, for example:

          "folder/imagefile.jpg"

        • If the saving location of the image file is something else, type the entire path with quotations in the field, for example:

          "D:/custom_backgrounds/photographs/imagefile.jpg"

     2. Click the Set button.
3. Confirm by clicking OK.

Change the Background Photo
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