I would also like to see this.  I would like the ability to have a large-scale image as my background and layer frames on top, leveraging the new hide frame feature so content is only visible when I chose to reveal it. 

@Kim Roth Howe If what you suggest about being able to add and lock large images into the background could happen, Miro would be the ultimate collaborative tool. How can we make them see how crucial this is? Count me in as a fellow petitioner.

Being able to lock images into the background would indeed be a great feature to have!

I wish I could vote for this feature more than once.

I’d like to vote more than once as well. I wonder if there’s a way we can help attract others in the forums here, who would also value this feature but who haven’t stumbled across the posts that have been offered? If we can’t vote more than once, our only option seems to be to find others to add their votes to ours.

yes please, this would really help give a consistent theme and “graphical identity” to my boards 

Yes, please.  I would be able to create some pretty cool boards if this was possible.

This would be super helpful! Voted!

This is definitely what I’ve been feeling too. Trying to give my boards a “graphical identity” so they don’t look like every other Miro board is something I’ve been trying to achieve.

That feature would be useful to set a canvas (pdf or any image) as background and play on top of it.

I often have to “send to back” some items and do then the same on background canvas to have the line back on screen.

Setting an item as “Background” (or like level “-1”) could to the trick.

I realize I’m describing how PowerPoint is managing it with the “slide master”.

Yes please. Its the only thing I miss about Mural. Miro is a way better tool, but this would be brilliant. 

It’s frustrating trying to create any kind of true, immovable background. Whether it’s an image or objects, my teams end up with lots of items close together and it’s REALLY easy to accidentally select the background, even if you think you definitely clicked on the object you want.

Having items that aren’t even clickable would make it much easier to move things from a zoomed out view.

Having objects that aren’t clickable BUT that other items could line up with/snap to would also be amazing for creating templates.

This is still important!

Just take a look at most desktops, you can define a background image, you have some simple options to tile or stretch. The concept is well known by most users.

And very important, the background image is entirely passive, you can move your objects (icons) around unaffected by the image being there or not, your right-click menu is the same, image or not.

You can use it to please your need for multicolor.
You can use it to push a message.
You can use it to define areas of you screen, for sorting the objects you have there
You can use it to …..

I need this as well. No matter how well I lock contents on a board, someone invariable figures out (likely accidentally) how to unlock it which moves important images and frames. The working image needs to be a background, it would be great if a frame layer could be absolutely locked over that. This way all the work on the canvas/board would be the only things that coule be moved around by ANYONE except me. 

Frames are not just used to navigate, but to organize data when exporting to a spreadsheet. The fact that frames are ugly, and titles cannot be hidden, really destroys my professional visual representation of a canvas I use to help businesses. All the lables are on the canvas, so while the frame needs to be named for export, it does not need to be visible on the canvas. I have about 400 frames on my canvas. I am not using presentation mode because it is a working canvas, not a presentation.

This means accidently unocked or moved images and frames cause big problems for the whole canvas because once the work has started, I can’t lock it again without moving all the stickies off, locking it and moving it back!

Hi everyone, 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion and upvoted the thread! Your feedback is invaluable, and it helps us understand the community's needs better.

We are actively monitoring any updates from our product team regarding this feature request. Rest assured, we’ll keep you informed here in the thread or through an announcement as soon as we have more information.

Thank you for helping Miro!