Background Image

Background images have a certain transformation and may have an opacity specified. They are used usually to trace a design at the beginning of a new project.

Add background image (can be added to a glyph in three ways):

• Paste image data
• Drop an image file onto the canvas
• Choose an image file from the user’s hard drive, with the Glyph -> Add background image… menu.

Un/Lock background image

1. unlock or lock the background image via the context menu

Edit background image

1. unlock background image
2. select the image (the glyph needs to be in edit mode, and at a selected source, not at an interpolation)
3. edit images properties like opacity or transformation
   • via Selection info panel: opacity, color or transformation
   • via Transformation panel: flip, align, etc
   • via Transform selection: scale, rotate interactively with Pointer tool

Delete background image

1. select the image
2. delete via keyboard or right click context-menu delete selection

Show/hide background images

1. go to Glyph editor appearance
2. click Background image