Baby Birthday Digital Backdrops

What is in this collection

The themed sets cover adventure and play: a wooden rocket with painted planets on a navy wall, a yellow ride-on digger with traffic cones, a white rowboat on a seaside jetty, a wooden toy train, a red pedal car, a jungle explorer tent, a little red barn and a striped circus tent. Gentler themes include a pastel wooden play kitchen, a tiny music room with a toy piano, a royal blue velvet throne with a gold crown, an under-the-sea scallop shell and pastel hot air balloons in clouds. A pastel spooky-cute Halloween studio and a muted soft play playroom complete it. Classic cake smash corners and seasonal sets, such as the soft rainbow arch, the strawberry picnic and the tea party table, are in the first birthday collection.

Choosing a theme for a first birthday or cake smash

Pick the theme the party is already built around: the rocket for a little astronaut, the digger for a construction party, the jetty rowboat for a nautical day, the play kitchen for a little chef. As baby birthday photography backgrounds they suit cake smash minis: shoot one simple setup, then offer it in several themes. As baby birthday photo booth backgrounds, most sets frame one to three people, so a parent can kneel beside the baby; the soft play playroom fits four to six for siblings and cousins. For more cake smash sets, see the first birthday, birthday balloons and birthday collections.

Tips for using these scenes

• Shoot low, then scale with care. These sets are drawn for a seated baby, so photograph your little one from floor level and size them so the rocket, digger or play kitchen still looks like a toy beside them.
• Match the window you shot by. The rocket, digger and toy train are lit from the left; the circus tent, pedal car, jungle camp and music room from the right. Put your key light on the same side, or pick a theme that matches the window you shot by.
• Leave the age and name to your layout. No scene has numbers, names or text, so add them in your invitation, print or booth template. Square suits invitations and posts; portrait suits single prints and phone screens.

Planning a cake smash? Digital cake smash backdrops covers compositing a seated child into a first-birthday scene.