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moogyboy

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  1. Update: Oh. My. God. The mysterious, inconspicuous "K only" button...I had to Google it, because it's not in the fricken manual and no one in this thread mentioned it. Of course it makes sense. K=black. Black Only. Otherwise Publisher treats it as a color image. I believe the problem is solved, at least as far as my specific purpose. I'll keep you posted with any further observations.
  2. Hi everyone, first time posting... I've been researching this issue ever since I purchased the entire Affinity suite. Overall it's a very solid alternative to the old Adobe stuff that I spent my entire design career using. Unfortunately, old habits don't go away and when I heard that Affinity doesn't support 1-bit BMP files my stomach fell. For my purposes, BMPs were an essential part of my approach and whole style of design; I would use them for everything from background texture patterns, little hand-drawn dingbats, logos, and so forth, anywhere that I needed a simple one-color element with a transparent background and arbitrary spot color. The conversation seems to be revolving around PNG files instead, but I needed to know that those would do what I need them to. Okay, so after reading the latter posts in this thread I'm satisfied that using Photo and Publisher I can create a PNG with these qualities when placed in a Publisher picture frame. So far this covers everything that I would otherwise use a BMP image for. Almost... There's one big problem: the color displayed on the PNG is not accurate to the color I choose in Swatches. At least not reliably. Say I have a simple logo, black on white, which I drew in Photo. I export to PNG as direted, place it in Publisher, select the image, and apply, say light blue. Nope; whatever color I apply to it remains very dark, as if it's mixing with the black, and I cannot get it to show up full brightness or saturation. I try again with my PNG image red instead of black. This time, I get what looks like the real light blue, but if I try adjusting the brightness, at either end it goes to gray instead of white or black, even though the proper color is showing up in the Fill viewhole. Whats worse, it also looks like the brightness slider is affecting the hue somewhat! Okay, something is messed up here, unless there's a detail I'm overlooking. We're almost there, but not being able to control the color predictably is a maddening quirk. The best I can do, unless I find a workaround, is to actually fill the elements in Photo with whatever color I need and export a PNG with the specific color I need. This is not ideal and I may end up with multiple versions of any given image, but at least I have transparent backgrounds... Still, anyone who can help with this issue woudl receive my eternal gratitude. Here's the PNG I used for my test if you want to experiment. cheers Billy S.
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