Thanks for the info! So then I don't need to care too much of superclean code, if it's just for me and my friends .

Thanks both! So I stay with the opacity of a fullscreen image that I have top most, so it doesn't dim the instruments themselves. Thought there would be another, even nicer way.

For me (I don't plan to sell any instruments or even panels), it looks much more realistic having built instruments out of real photographs rather than having these "super clean" instruments, that are (again: for me) too clean to be real. As an example I attach an instrument, where I used ...

Thank you for the Video, made it clear for me how to use panels under the edit tab!

Although the post is somewhat older, I also face the problem of night flying with my brightly illuminated panel. So I (also) tried to put opacity in, but I can do this for an instrument, not for the whole background image. Further it looks you found a much more elegant way to dim everything, not jus...

Mac Users: Just adding (as a non-graphics-guy) the way I cut out instruments from my photos in round shape on a Mac . You might know how to cut out rectangle shapes with Shift-CMD-4 and using Mouse or trackpad. But most instruments are more or less round. There is also a built-in way for these with...