How to Add Background Image to a Column

Customize your column design with background images.
This guide shows you how to add a background image to a specific column in your document. Learn how to select images from the built-in library or upload your own, adjust image opacity, and apply visual overlays to enhance your layout.

Add Column Background

  1. Learn how to enhance your column with a custom background image in simple steps.
  2. Follow the steps below to apply the change in your QuoteCloud document.

Add Column Background

1

Open the column options

Right-click the column you want to customise.

This opens the column options menu.

2

Open Column Settings

Click Column Settings to access layout and appearance controls.

The Column Settings panel opens on the side of the editor.

3

Open Background settings

Select the Background control to view the available background types.

This is where you choose whether the column uses a colour or image background.

4

Choose Image

Choose Image to apply a background image to the column.

The column background controls will update to show image options.

5

Add a background image

Click Add to set a background image.

The image picker opens with available images and upload options.

6

Select or upload an image

Select an image from the built-in image library, or click Upload Image to upload your own.

The selected image is applied to the column background.

7

Adjust the image opacity

Use the opacity slider to control how transparent the background image appears.

Review the column to make sure the content remains readable over the image.

Finished

Your column background image has now been applied.

Continue adjusting opacity and overlay settings until the column fits your document design.

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