WaveVisual Help Center


Wallpapers are ready-made gradient images you can put behind your sound wave. In the editor they appear under **Wallpapers** in the **Background** tab (older notes may still call them background templates).


### How to apply a wallpaper

1. Open your design in the [editor](https://wavevisual.com/editor).
2. Open the **Background** tab.
3. Scroll to **Wallpapers**.
4. Click a thumbnail. It fills the canvas as a cover image.

![Wallpapers in the Background tab](/media/6e90748e-5859-4a83-ab03-cf111f522d26-background-wallpapers.png)


There are 60+ wallpapers, from soft pastels to night skies. Pick one that sits well with your wave colors.


### Remove or replace

- Click a different wallpaper to switch.
- On the selected wallpaper, use the **remove** control (the X) to clear it.
- You can also set **Background Colors** (including a transparent background) or upload your own image under **Background Image**. See [Can I upload a background image to my sound wave artwork?](https://app.notion.com/p/60c9fa99f4c2447aa71e89630f723c18).

### Wallpapers are not design templates


A wallpaper only changes the background. To apply a full layout (wave style, text, and background together), use the **Templates** tab.


Related:

- [Using design templates](https://app.notion.com/p/3d192f3e5a7a81e0ab78d3d25f34a737)
- [Saving your own templates](https://app.notion.com/p/3d192f3e5a7a8106b726cb53fc7a7c40)
- [What's the difference between wallpapers and templates?](https://app.notion.com/p/3d192f3e5a7a81ccba33fc7d9d25942c)


Use Wallpapers in the Background tab to apply a ready-made gradient image behind your sound wave.

Gradient background templates


We’ve added a new setting to resize background images easier. Just use the slider in “Background” tab to arrange the zoom of your background image.


![Zoom slider for resizing an image](/media/9951b45f-4e6c-4159-a3bd-361a33eeaa7e-sizzy-photo-studio-2022-04-11T211851_679Z.png)


Create your personalised sound wave artwork by starting with the example above.


[bookmark](https://wavevisual.com/editor?templateId=d-KnAPYQVIkgoG41KL1MiV)



Improved the interface for importing custom images by adding a zoom setting

Zoom setting for background images


![rebuilding_your_designs.png](/media/df24fa48-3c29-400d-b396-cdf3b06de732-rebuilding_your_designs.png)


We’re working on rebuilding the way users can view their designs. So far, Your Designs page was a simple list of all the designs that were associated with a given user account. Now we’re improving on that both in terms of functionality and performance.


There has been multiple improvements on this interface. We started using [Typesense](https://typesense.com/) to leverage pagination and faster database queries. This change enabled us increase page loads dramatically. This technology will also be useful when we’re adding full text search functionality to this page. So that’s coming soon :)


There was another major performance improvement for generating artwork thumbnails. The system is now producing jpg files instead of png files. It also caches them much more efficiently. Therefore, reloading thumbnails will also be much faster.


We are continously working on improving WaveVisual in many ways. If there is a feature you need or an issue you face, feel free to contact us via live chat and let us know!



We’re rebuilding Your Designs page in order to make it easier for you to view your drafts and purchased items.

What’s New?

New Features

Improvements