*Background For Pages On A Mac Shortcut
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In Pages on your Mac, mask (crop) a photo, remove background elements, and adjust exposure, saturation, contrast, and other image settings. You can add a color, gradient, or image to the background of individual pages and to the background of master pages. Change the background of individual pages Change the background of a master page For more information about the fill options, see Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image.Background For Pages On A Mac ShortcutA new feature in Pages allows you to create color, gradient or image backgrounds in Page Layout documents. You can stretch or tile images across the page. You can also tint the image to fit your needs.
Check out Pages Backgrounds at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.Video Transcript: The latest version of Pages, version 7.1, has a new feature that allows you to add a background in page layout documents. Let's take a look.I'm going to choose a basic template here and I'm going to convert that to a page layout document. As a standard word processing document this feature isn't available. That's when you have text flowing from one page to the next. But page layout documents are used to create things like signs and brochures, that's where this feature is. Now you want to make sure Format is selected here in the right sidebar. You can see here that there's a section for background. If it's closed you want to open it by clicking here.So let's zoom out, actually, so we can see the whole page here. Now we can fill it with a color. So I can change to Color Fill and you can see it does a solid color here. I can choose from one of these chips here. I can choose from here or click here to bring up the color selector and choose any color I want. So color fill is pretty basic. Gradient fill gets a little more complex. It's going from one color to another. So you can see I can have it go left to right or up and down. Change the angle manually here. I can change what color it goes from and what color it goes to. For more complex settings go to Advances Gradient Fill. Now I can actually, you know, have more one color than another. I can change the mid point between colors. Add another color in there so I can have multiple colors. So I can create pretty advanced things. I can also go to a Radial Fill here. You can reverse it. You can change the angle. Lots of things that you can do in Advanced Gradient Fill. Image Fill is where you take some image. It can be a photograph, it could be a texture, whatever. It's got this here by default. You can choose to have it displayed either tiled, scale the whole thing to fill, scale to fit. If tiled you can change the size. So you can zoom in or out. Let's say we want to use our own. You can just drag and drop. I'm going to drag an image file from the Finder. Drag it into here. You can see it put it there. Now I can scale to fill it and that's what it looks like. To fit you can now see the entire thing. If I tile it, you can see there it is tiled. You can zoom in and out. So that's really useful to be able to do it like that. You can do Advanced Image Fill. The interesting thing about Advanced Image Fill is using the same image but now you can actually colorize it. So I can change the color, the tint, of what I'm using which in this case works out really well. So here's another one I've got. Another image. It's like a water image there. I can, you know, change it to a different color to do something different with it. So these are really useful. Obviously these are probably not going to be used for things that you print out. Can you image the amount of ink you're going to use when you're printing these out even on a good, efficient laser printer or something. But now that we create things like PDF's and all with Pages mostly you can use this to make some interesting backgrounds. Of course if you're just doing a one off sign like that and you have a good color printer then using a background could be an interesting way to make it stand out.Related Subjects: Pages (147 videos)Related Video Tutorials: Using Your Own Photos Or Graphics As Desktop Backgrounds ― Create Animated Backgrounds For Keynote SlidesYou can import an image and use it as a background for a page or your entire document. Learn how to get the image to appear behind text, and to adjust it so your text stands out.
Check out Background Images In Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.Desktop Backgrounds For MacVideo Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a look at creating a background image for your documents in Pages.I'm using Pages version 5 and we're going to take a look at how to add a background image behind your text.I've got a sample document with some sample text and I have this background that I want to set as the background, not only for this page, but for all the pages in the document. So I'm going to drag and drop it in just to get it into the Pages document.But instead of just letting it float there on that page I'm going to go to the Arrange menu, Section Masters and move this object to the Section Masters. Now it is in the background as you can see.So I'm going to scale it up, let's zoom out on this quite a bit, and you can see it. It actually appears there on page 2. I'm going to scale this a huge amount and drag it around, you can see the arrow keys here, so that it kind of covers everything. After I've got it to a position that I want, there we go that is perfect, now I can also begin to also work with it as an image and change some things about it.I can adjust the exposure, for instance, and saturation to get it like I want. Let's go fully to this Adjust Image here and we'll be able to really play around with its levels because we want it to appear kind of light behind everything and not interfere with the black text.Let's say this is the effect that we want. Let's go back to the full view here so we can see. Now it appears as a pretty light background on this and we can scroll down and you can see there it appears at the bottom of the text very nice. It is exactly the effect that I was looking for. The cool thing is that it will always add itself to the end of every page here. So I can continue to add more text and go to a new page and it will be here on this next page as well. So it is the complete background for my entire document by doing it this way.Related Subjects: Pages (147 videos)Background For Pages On A Mac OsRelated Video Tutorials: How To Change the Background Color In Mac Pages
