By default, if you have not chosen a template, the background of a Powtoon slide is blank.
Powtoon provides a variety of options for adding a background to slides:
Uploading a background
Picking a background color
Using a background from your media collection
Using an image for a background
Using a video as a background
Using a ready-made background
The background you add can be applied to an individual slide or to all the slides in your Powtoon.
Powtoon provides a variety of options for adding a background to slides:
Uploading a background
Picking a background color
Using a background from your media collection
Using an image for a background
Using a video as a background
Using a ready-made background
The background you add can be applied to an individual slide or to all the slides in your Powtoon.
Uploading a background
- Select the slide to which you want to upload a background.
- Select the Background tab and then Upload your background.

- Use one of the following options:
- Click Upload to upload a background from your computer
- Click fiverr to be redirected to the fiverr site, where you can hire a designer to create a background for your Powtoon
- Click one of the social media icons to upload your background from the relevant channel: Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Photos

- The background will be added to both the slide and to My Media, your personal media library, ready for future use.

Picking a background color
Use this option to apply a solid color as the background to a slide.
- Select the slide to which you want to apply the color.
- Select the Background tab and then Pick a background color.

- Select a color from the Basic Colors.

Using a background from your media collection
Your media collection -My Media- contains all the media that you have uploaded to Powtoon as well as all the media that you have used in previous Powtoons.
- Select the slide to which you want to add a background.
- Select the Background tab and then My Media.

- Select the image that you want as your slide background.
Using an image for a background
- In the Powtoon Studio, make sure that you are working in Create mode.
- Navigate to the slide to which you want to add a background.
- Select the Images tab.

- Use the search bar
- Premium Images: these are premium images from the leading stock image websites.
-
Flickr: these are free images of a wide diversity of subjects.
Note that the Flickr images are not available to subscribers of classroom plans.
or browse the following libraries to locate an image:
- Scroll through the images. As you scroll, you can hover over the thumbnails to see a larger image.

- Select the image that you want as the background. It will be added to the stage:

- Right-click the image and then click Set as background.

The image, now set as the background, will cover the entire slide:

Note:
You can also set an image as a background by clicking the checkered icon in the image preview.

Using a video as a background
See Adding a video to your Powtoon for step-by-step instructions.
Using a ready-made background
- Select the slide to which you want to apply a ready-made background.
- Select the Background tab and then browse the libraries (Locations, Color Backgrounds, Abstract Backgrounds, Image Backgrounds) to locate a background that suits your Powtoon best.

- Select the desired background.