Use the board with the scene

Put the scene on the board#

Add > Render Result puts the last render (F12) on the board, captioned with its time and frame. With no render yet Pinvas says "Nothing rendered yet: render first (F12)".
Add > Viewport Snapshot puts the 3D View as it is now on the board, without the board itself.
Add Renders Automatically, in the Boards menu, puts every finished render on the board. See Boards and files.

Send a picture into the scene#

Select a picture, right-click and open Send to Scene:

Choice	What you get
Camera Background	The picture as the active camera's background image.
Image Empty	An image empty at the 3D cursor, facing the view.
Image Plane	A textured plane at the 3D cursor.

Crop, flips, turn and opacity are kept. A cropped picture sends a packed copy of the part that shows. A video sends as a movie that plays; Pinvas then says "A video goes whole: its crop is only on the board".

Send drawings into the scene#

Select drawings made in Draw mode, right-click and open Send to Scene:

Choice	What you get
Drawing as Grease Pencil	One Grease Pencil object at the 3D cursor, facing the view.
Drawing as Grease Pencil, in Front of Camera	The same object in front of the scene's camera, facing it.

Drawings sent to the scene as a Grease Pencil object with a translucent green rectangle, then a picture sent as an Image Plane; both appear in the 3D View — A sketch sent as Grease Pencil, then a picture as an Image Plane.

The object has one layer. Lines, arrows with their heads, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, Pen strokes, dashed lines and fills are kept, with their colours and line weights, and a light fill stays see-through. It is sized like an Image Plane: as tall as one, however big the drawings are on the board. It is one undo step. Notes and pictures are not sent, and the entries are greyed when no drawing is selected.

Take colours into Blender#

Make Palette turns a picture's main colours into a Blender palette. If the picture is fully transparent Pinvas says "No colours to take: the picture is transparent".

After an eyedropper pick (see Judge a picture), Picked Colour has two choices:

To Brush sets the paint brush colour. With no paint brush active, Pinvas says "No paint brush to give it to".
To Material sets the base colour of the active object's material. With no object or no material, Pinvas says "Select an object with a material first".

Link a board to an object#

Show with in the Boards menu links the current board to the selected object. With Follow Selection on, selecting that object brings its board up. With no object selected, Pinvas says "Select an object first".