Operation Manual

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those described above for the Looks Browser (page
189), except that the color or gradient you select is
instantly applied to the background of the title you are
editing.
If you are working on an overlay title, you may find
interesting ways to use the Opacity setting on the color-
picker dialogs for these buttons, especially when the
overlay is coupled with transitions.
Normally, though, you’ll use a transparent background
for titles, and transparency is the default background
selection for a new title or menu.
The final option for backgrounds is picture – an image
file in any standard format. As with many of the
sections of Studio’s main Album, the backgrounds are
drawn from a source folder that may be changed using
the folder button. The image file you select with the
folder button becomes the new background, and the
image files in the folder are displayed as thumbnails on
the Album panel. If necessary, the Title Editor stretches
the background image until it fills the width or height
of screen but does not change its proportions.
The Pictures section
As with the background pictures just discussed,
the images in the Pictures section of the Title
Editor Album can be of any standard type. Instead of
being stretched to fill the Edit Window, however, these
pictures are added to the title as picture objects and
displayed at normal size with eight control points that
allow them to be repositioned and resized (though not
rotated or skewed).