Digital Backdrop Designer for Adobe Photoshop

The Backdrop Designer interface.

When you apply Backdrop Designer to a layer in Adobe Photoshop, a custom interface opens. Inside are five expandable areas and options for your digital background. Through these palettes, you can mutate the digital backdrop pattern, shift its color values, adjust the opacity of its shadows, even load in another Photoshop file.

Five easy-to-use palettes.

Texture Window. This palette is for loading, customizing, and creating Texture presets.
Shadow Window. This palette is for loading, customizing, and creating Shadow presets.
Combine Window. This preview window is for viewing and tweaking the composite digital backdrop.
Bend Editor. This option is for loading in bitmap files to use as custom Shadows, in place of a preset.
Menu Bar. Use the top-level buttons for global tasks like saving your own presets. You also access the main Preset Manager from here.

The Menu Bar.

The Menu Bar provides a variety of basic functions. The Apply and Cancel buttons are here. The Menu Bar also holds options for Render Quality and the Preset Manager controls.

The Options Menu is where you control the quality of textures that get rendered out. Your render choices are Fast, Normal, and High Quality. Usually Fast Render will be good enough to design your texture. For final renders, it's best to use Normal Render. High Quality produces great results but it is time-consuming.

Expand your options.

Each area of Backdrop Designer contains a tool palette or dialog box that modifies your digital backdrop. Just click the Edit button to expand the Texture or Shadow Windows.

This will bring you into a list of useful image editing tools. They should feel comfortable since many of these functions are found in Adobe Photoshop.

Texture Edit palette has familiar sliders such as Brightness and Hue. The Shadow Edit palette contains old favorites like Opacity and Contrast.