From the course: Affinity Photo for iPad

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Adding a background image

Adding a background image

- Let's now add a background image. We'll go to the commands, and we'll choose place, and place from cloud. Once again, I'll go into my Affinity Photo folder and I'll choose this image of the band. And it's loaded up but, as we saw earlier, the image doesn't show up until we drag to place it. So let's reduce the size of the whole image, by pinching, and now we can just drag, from corner to corner, to place that photograph. It's appearing at the top and, clearly, we want it to appear behind the image of Zeeteah. So, let's open the layers studio, pick it up, and now drag it beneath the background image, and there it is behind her. We can also go to Zeeteah. Let's pick her up and move her over to the edge. We don't want to move her too far or we'll see the additional picture of her behind. Just about there frames the image nicely. And, we can make it bigger by grabbing one of the corner handles and dragging to increase the size a little. And, that frames the right hand side of the image…

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