Graduation Digital Backgrounds and Backdrops

What is in this collection

Campus scenes include an ivy-covered red brick university archway, broad library steps under a portico of stone columns, a magnolia walkway on a spring campus, a great oak on a college lawn with two Adirondack chairs, a modern glass and concrete campus atrium, a campus courtyard with a reflecting pool and formal garden steps with a fountain at golden hour. For indoor academic portraits there is an oak reading room with green banker's lamps and a dark walnut panelled study with a green leather wingback chair. School-colour sets include a navy and gold balloon hoop with a mortarboard on a plinth, maroon drapes with a gold tassel garland, a purple and gold floral arch with yellow roses, scarlet and black balloons on whitewashed brick, a silver mirror mosaic arch on black facets and a boxwood hedge wall with gold balloons and a crate of rolled diplomas. Ceremony and class photo sets include a charcoal drape stage with warm uplighting, a navy carpet with silver stanchions and pale oak tiered seating for rows of seated graduates. For the party there is a backyard pergola with festoon lights and a terracotta and navy cake table, and for little graduates a preschool wall of painted wooden stars.

Graduation photography backgrounds and photo booths

Photographers can use the campus, library and study scenes as graduation photography backgrounds for cap and gown sessions shot in the studio. At a grad party or ceremony, the balloon walls, the hedge wall and the stage sets work as graduation photo booth backgrounds. The same graduation digital backdrops suit preschool and kindergarten portraits too, through the wooden star wall. For black-tie leavers' events, see prom; for staff and faculty photos, corporate.

Tips for using these scenes

• Match the school colours. There are sets in navy and gold, maroon and gold, purple and gold, scarlet and black, and black and silver. No scene carries a school name, crest or year, so add those in your print template.
• Use the wide sets for the class. The library steps, the reflecting pool courtyard, the garden steps, the backyard party and the tiered seating fit seven or more; seat the front row on the tiered steps. Landscape files suit class prints.
• Match the outdoor sun. The ivy archway, the great oak and the garden steps have sun from the right, the magnolia walkway from the left. Light graduates from the same side, and add a little rim light so a black gown keeps its shape against the scene.

Printing a class photo large? resolution and print sizes has a print size table.