Backgrounds include a lot of nuance, especially the part covering the priorities which I start with in the tutorial below. Because of that this is one of the longer how do I videos I've done in a while as there is just so much to cover. I still had to cut a lot of stuff away and focus almost entirely on the designer tool.
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