Pictures and the room logo

Each tile shows artwork: a color, an icon, a scene, a sticker, a drawing, a moving picture, a sign, a pattern, your own picture, or the program's own icon. You can also add your own room logo to the home screen and the idle screen, and show it on screens with the theme. RoomCaddie saves a copy of every picture you choose and includes it in your backups.

• Your picture must be a jpg, png, webp or bmp file, up to 20 MB, with no animation.
• A PNG logo keeps its transparency. If you have a vector file (SVG), export it as a PNG first.

Change a tile's artwork

1. Open the editor and tap the tile.
2. Beside Artwork, press Change….
3. Tap a tab on the side: Color, Sign, Drawing, Pattern, Moving, Scene, Sticker, Icon, Your photo or App icon. App icon appears only for tiles that start a program.
4. Tap a choice. The tile changes immediately, and the sheet stays open so you can try another choice.
5. Press Done.

On every tab except Color, Your photo and App icon, tap the item with a ring around it again to remove it.

Give every tile the same sign, pattern or color

1. Open the editor and tap a tile with the sign, pattern or color you want.
2. Beside Artwork, press Change… and tap Sign, Pattern or Color.
3. Press Use on every tile. The button appears only when the tile uses something from that tab.
4. Review what the question says will change, then press Use on every tile again. Cancel changes nothing.

Every tile on the screen you are editing changes, including folder tiles. Tiles inside folders stay as they are. A sign or pattern includes the tile's color underneath it. Each sign shows its own tile's name. Choosing a color makes every tile plain in that color. Photos and program icons are removed from those tiles. Your picture files stay on your PC. To put everything back, press Undo in the editor's status line before you make another change. It stays there after you press Done editing, so you can look at your Home screen first, then open the editor again to undo. After that, you can find a snapshot from just before the change in Settings > Backups.

Put your own picture on a tile

1. On the Artwork sheet, tap Your photo, then Your own picture.
2. Choose the picture file. It appears on the tile immediately.

Moving or deleting the original file does not affect the tile. To remove the picture, open Your photo and tap Back to theme art.

Add the room logo

1. Open the editor with no tile selected. Under Room logo, below Room name, press Your own logo….
2. Choose the picture file. The logo appears above the room name at Medium size.

Place and size the logo

1. Under Room logo, tap where you want the logo to appear: Above the name, In place of the name, Behind the name or Center of the screen.
2. Tap a size: Small, Medium, Large or Extra large. Huge is available only for Center of the screen.

Each tap saves your choice immediately.

Change or remove the logo

1. Open the editor with no tile selected and find Room logo.
2. Press Change… and choose another file, or press Remove to take the logo off.

Setting	Where	What it does	Default
Artwork	The editor, with the tile selected	The tile's color, sign, drawing, pattern, moving picture, scene, sticker, icon, picture or program icon.	The theme's look for that tile
Room logo	The editor, with no tile selected	Shows your own picture on the home screen and the idle screen, and on screens with the theme when Room logo is on in Settings > Screens.	No logo
Logo place	The editor, under Room logo	Where the logo appears.	Above the name
Logo size	The editor, under Room logo	How big the logo is.	Medium

• Color lets you choose from the theme's colors or pick any color. Your chosen color keeps the theme's finish and stays when you change the room's theme.
• An Icon appears over the tile's color in the theme's ink color; a Scene fills the tile and is recolored to match the theme.
• A Sticker sits on the tile's color. A Drawing, a picture from Moving or a Pattern fills the tile. All four keep their own colors in every theme.
• Your tile's name may cover part of its sticker, depending on the sticker and where tile names sit. To move the names, choose another place under Tile names sit in the editor with no tile selected.
• A Sign uses the tile's name as its picture, so the tile shows no other name or caption. When you rename the tile, the sign shows the new name. The sign reads "Return to" and the tile's name while a program monitored by RoomCaddie is open.
• A picture from Moving moves only while the home screen is in front. It stays still while a program starts, while a program is in front of the home screen and while the idle screen is showing. To keep it still all the time, turn on Keep moving tiles still in Settings > Screens.
• A tile shows one kind of artwork at a time. Each new choice replaces the previous one, and your own picture replaces any built-in artwork.
• RoomCaddie's built-in pictures are made or licensed for RoomCaddie. It includes no third-party logos, box art or streaming artwork.
• Your pictures and logo are included in every backup and in the file you export. They stay on your PC unless you send that file somewhere.
• To save every tile's picture, your logo and your theme together and switch back later, use Looks… in the editor (see Tiles and the editor). A picture or logo used by a saved look stays on your PC as long as any look uses it. If a photo is missing when you switch, the tile shows only its saved color. If the logo file is missing, your room shows no logo, and the status line tells you so.
• If the tiles leave too little room, a logo above or in place of the name appears smaller on the home screen or does not appear at all. The editor tells you this below the sizes.
• A saved Huge logo appears as Extra large anywhere except the center. It returns to Huge when you choose Center of the screen again.

What you see	What to do
"that file isn't a picture RoomCaddie can use (jpg, png, webp or bmp)"	Save the picture as one of those file types and choose it again.
"that picture is bigger than RoomCaddie supports (20 MB limit)"	Make the picture smaller or choose another.
"that picture moves (an animated file)"	Your own picture must be still. Choose a still picture, or choose one from the Moving tab.
"The logo file is missing; pick it again."	Press Your own logo… and pick the file again.
"This room's tiles leave no room" for the logo "on the home screen"	Choose Behind the name or Center of the screen, which still fit.
"is no longer in RoomCaddie's gallery"	That built-in artwork is no longer available, so the tile shows its color or the program's icon. Press Change… and choose another.