diff --git a/desktop/src/layers.rs b/desktop/src/layers.rs
index 74f8ebb8..991413ba 100644
--- a/desktop/src/layers.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/layers.rs
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ pub struct Layers {
     pub edit_text: Option<u64>,
     /// Layer Opacity asked for the current layer (two fingers tapped on its row).
     pub layer_opacity: bool,
+    /// The background's colour asked for (its row tapped off its visibility box), as Procreate.
+    pub pick_background: bool,
     /// On a model: the mesh open (its texture set's layers under it), the layer whose channels
     /// show, the channel whose colour shows, each channel's own colour (hue, saturation,
     /// brightness) kept while another is painted, the meshes' and channels' pictures, and the
@@ -517,7 +519,9 @@ impl Layers {
                             }
                             if model.is_none() {
                                 ui.add_space(10.0);
-                                background_row(ui, look, session);
+                                if background_row(ui, look, session) {
+                                    self.pick_background = true;
+                                }
                             }
                             ui.add_space(12.0);
                             // the pinched rows over the rest, the upper over the lower
@@ -1739,8 +1743,9 @@ fn blend_rows(ui: &Ui, look: &mut Look, list: Rect, modes: &[BlendModeInfo], cho
     }
 }
 
-/// The background: its colour and whether it shows.
-fn background_row(ui: &mut Ui, look: &mut Look, session: &CanvasSession) {
+/// The background: its colour and whether it shows; true when the row is tapped off its
+/// visibility box, for its colour to be picked.
+fn background_row(ui: &mut Ui, look: &mut Look, session: &CanvasSession) -> bool {
     let background = session.background();
     let (row, _) = ui.allocate_exact_size(vec2(ui.available_width(), 50.0), Sense::hover());
     ui.painter().rect_filled(row, 17, argb(BACKGROUND_ROW));
@@ -1760,7 +1765,10 @@ fn background_row(ui: &mut Ui, look: &mut Look, session: &CanvasSession) {
     check_box(ui, look, visibility.center(), background.visible, argb(CHECK_FILL));
     if ui.interact(visibility, ui.scope_id().with("background visible"), Sense::click()).clicked() {
         session.set_background_visible(!background.visible);
+        return false;
     }
+    let rest = Rect::from_min_max(row.min, pos2(visibility.left() - 4.0, row.max.y));
+    ui.interact(rest, ui.scope_id().with("background colour"), Sense::click()).clicked()
 }
 
 /// A visibility box: filled with a check cut out of it when shown, an outline when hidden.
diff --git a/desktop/src/ui.rs b/desktop/src/ui.rs
index 53515b9d..87365ef6 100644
--- a/desktop/src/ui.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/ui.rs
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ pub struct Interface {
     /// A Save As being written: where and at which edits, or why it couldn't be.
     pub saving: Option<std::sync::mpsc::Receiver<Result<(std::path::PathBuf, u64), String>>>,
     open: Option<Popover>,
+    /// The background's colour being picked in the colour panel: the brush's colour to give back
+    /// when it closes, and the last colour the background took.
+    background_pick: Option<(u32, [f32; 3])>,
     pub(crate) colours: Colours,
     drop: ColourDrop,
     library: Library,
@@ -202,6 +205,7 @@ impl Default for Interface {
             saving: None,
             inserting: Vec::new(),
             open: None,
+            background_pick: None,
             colours: Colours::default(),
             drop: ColourDrop::default(),
             library: Library::default(),
@@ -713,6 +717,7 @@ impl Interface {
         if let Some(open) = self.open {
             self.popover(&ctx, session, open, anchor(open), info.tool, &mut backdrops);
         }
+        self.follow_background_pick(session);
         // the colour panel dragged out by its grabber: a window over the canvas until closed
         self.colours.show_floating(&ctx, &mut self.look, session, &mut backdrops);
         // the colour model chosen on the panel, kept; the panel works in the one kept
@@ -2066,6 +2071,33 @@ impl Interface {
         goes_on
     }
 
+    /// The background's row tapped: the colour panel opens on the background's colour, and what
+    /// is picked in it goes to the background (live, one undo step when it closes), the brush's
+    /// colour given back then, as Procreate does.
+    fn start_background_pick(&mut self, session: &CanvasSession) {
+        let b = session.background();
+        let brush = to_hex(self.colours.rgb());
+        self.colours.set_rgb(session, to_hex([b.r, b.g, b.b]));
+        self.background_pick = Some((brush, [b.r, b.g, b.b]));
+        self.open = Some(Popover::Colour);
+    }
+
+    /// Takes what the colour panel shows to the background while its colour is picked, and ends
+    /// the pick when the panel has closed.
+    fn follow_background_pick(&mut self, session: &CanvasSession) {
+        let Some((brush, last)) = self.background_pick else { return };
+        let now = self.colours.rgb();
+        let open = self.open == Some(Popover::Colour);
+        if !open {
+            session.set_background_color(now[0], now[1], now[2], true);
+            self.colours.set_rgb(session, brush);
+            self.background_pick = None;
+        } else if now != last {
+            session.set_background_color(now[0], now[1], now[2], false);
+            self.background_pick = Some((brush, now));
+        }
+    }
+
     /// The open panel, hanging from its button; a press anywhere else, or Escape, closes it.
     fn popover(
         &mut self,
@@ -2108,6 +2140,9 @@ impl Interface {
                 if std::mem::take(&mut self.layers.layer_opacity) {
                     self.start_layer_opacity(session);
                 }
+                if std::mem::take(&mut self.layers.pick_background) {
+                    self.start_background_pick(session);
+                }
                 shown
             }
             Popover::Colour => {