Marble Backgrounds

What is in this collection

White and light marble includes polished Carrara with soft grey veins, warm Calacatta with grey and gold-toned veins, honed white Statuario with sweeping charcoal veins and an aged cream marble with a soft patina. The dark slabs are glossy black marble with gold and amber veins, matte black Marquina with crisp white veins and chocolate-brown Emperador with cream and caramel veining. Coloured marble covers blush pink with cream veins, deep green verde, pale sage, deep royal blue, honed blue-grey Bardiglio, burgundy Rosso and a polished breccia with rose and cream fragments in a plum ground.

Marble for templates, flat lays and portraits

Marble is the classic base for wedding and anniversary templates: white Carrara or Calacatta behind photo boxes and script lettering looks like fine stationery. For black-and-gold birthdays, galas and New Year's Eve, the black marble with gold veins does the same job in a darker key, and the green verde, blue and burgundy slabs suit jewel-toned themes and winter events.

Because every slab is seen straight on, it also works as a tabletop for flat-lay style layouts: drop in cut-out products, cards or rings with a soft shadow. Polished slabs, such as the Carrara, black and gold and breccia, have a soft sheen and feel like a hotel lobby wall. Honed slabs, such as the Statuario, Bardiglio and aged cream marble, are matte and calmer behind faces. Each marble backdrop is one uninterrupted slab, so there are no tile seams to line up across a 2x6 strip or 4x6 print. See photo booth backgrounds for layouts and print sizes.

Tips for using these backgrounds

• Put text where the veins are quiet. Every slab has busier and calmer areas. Marble has no up or down, so flip or rotate the file until a calm patch sits under your names and date.
• Grade to the stone. Calacatta, black and gold, pink, Emperador, burgundy and breccia are warm; Marquina, Bardiglio, verde and blue are cool. Adjust your subject's white balance to the slab before you blend.
• Crop portraits close. A marble slab reads as a wall or a tabletop, so head-and-shoulders crops on the portrait file look most natural for one to three people. For groups, use the landscape file and the calmer slabs, such as Carrara, Bardiglio or the aged cream marble.

For more luxury surfaces see gold and metallic backgrounds and satin and silk backgrounds, or browse all textured backgrounds.