Watermarks

• May 20, 2019 - 11:23

... by which I mean a faint image behind the printed score. I'm sometimes asked to produce a fair copy of a single-page score which can be framed and presented to somebody. I like to print the score over a faint image, maybe of flowers or a landscape, maybe a violin, etc., depending on circumstances.
Once I have found the image I want, is there a way to do this in MuseScore?


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In reply to by jandtgeen1

Sorry, that was in reply to 'underquark'. And I'm talking about a whole-page size image, so 'Scale to Frame Size' doesn't really apply.
It looks like I'm going to have to carry on as before - print the background image first, then put the sheet through the printer again to print the score.

In reply to by jandtgeen1

  1. Insert your background image into the score:
    See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/images
    In my example, I right-click on the title frame, select Add→Picture, then pick my image from the file selector.

[Earlier you wrote: I'm going to have to carry on as before - print the background image first, then put the sheet through the printer again to print the score.
Well, that's the background image you add to the frame.]

  1. Adjust the image by double click and drag the handles to re-size.
    See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/images#Modify-image
    .
  2. Decrease the Stacking order in the Inspector so that the image appears 'behind' the staves.
    See:
    https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/automatic-placement#stacking-order
    which states: "Stacking order controls the order in which they are placed on top of each other. The element with the lower value will be placed behind."

Regards.
P.S. (As you have already discovered, using wallpaper looks good but doesn't print.)

In reply to by jandtgeen1

Yes...
When you double click the image and drag the handles to modify its height/width, the image can grow bigger than the frame it's attached to.
It can even be made larger than the sheet of paper upon which the score is written. The excess, of course, will not be seen or printed.

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