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Use background templates

Use ready-made background images, or create your own.

About background templates

Go to the Autodesk SketchBook Pro web site to download a large selection of graphs, lines, and other images you can draw over. When opening these templates into Autodesk SketchBook Pro, your markups have an annotation layer, with the image itself preserved as a locked background layer.

Opening a background template

1. Download the background templates from the Autodesk SketchBook Pro web site. For quick access to this site, choose Help > Autodesk SketchBook Pro Online.
2. Select File > Open.
3. Browse to the directory where you downloaded the background templates, and select the one you want.
4. Click Open.
5. To preserve the original template for later use, use File > Save As to save your markups to another file.

Creating your own background template

1. Select the image you want to use as a background template.

   It can be any image file in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or PSD format.

2. From Autodesk SketchBook Pro, use File > Open, browse, and select an image file.
3. Flick toward this icon to open the Layers window.

4. Hold the stylus over the background layer and flick toward this icon.

   SketchBook Pro locks the layer containing the background image.

5. Flick toward this icon to add another layer for markup.

   The new layer becomes the annotation layer.

6. Select File > Save As.
7. Select the TIFF file type (the only type that preserves layers). If the original image was a TIFF image, the file name automatically changes. You can also enter a different name.
8. Click Save.