(Originally posted on Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials blog.)

I recently got a question in my inbox asking how to set the background image for a GUI. This is done by creating an axes in the GUI and putting an image in it. Any UICONTROLs that you put on the GUI will appear over the image. See this video for the details:

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