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@Sharon Villines Agreed, this was one of a few major longstanding UX oversights that kept me from purchasing Affinity.

Like others, I earnestly can't believe this basic user experience issue hasn't been addressed in seven-plus years. Are we in the wrong place to get feedback to Affinity? It doesn't seem like anyone is listening. I'm using the trial version right now, hoping for a Photoshop replacement, but this lack of attention to the community is concerning enough to me that I may just ask my job to buy me a CS license.

Thank you! This solved it for me. I appreciate it.

Thanks for trying to help, but I'm still confused. What I want is to lose the background color of my document in Affinity Photo. It's white no matter what I do. Going to Layer > New Fill Layer had no effect. It seems wild to use a rectangle shape on every document just to make the background transparent. To quote every infomercial ever, there's got to be a better way. Say I want to make a PNG with a transparent background from a new document. How do I do that?

Hi all, Just getting started with Photo 2.1.1 today and loving it so far, except for one major issue / user error. Every new document I create has a white background despite there being no all-white layer underneath everything. See the attached screenshot. There's nothing there, but it's white! I can select the white background of a new document and click "delete" until the cows come home, but the white background remains. This flies in the face of everything I've learned from using other image editors in the past and I'm not sure what to do. Can someone help? Every new template I've tried seems to have this issue and I can't find where to specify the background of a new document!