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I've made a picture in Designer with a transparent background and I can't export it with the transparent background.

I've tried everything on the Forum but nothing works. I tried opening the actual .png with the white background in Photo, and it's transparent there. 

So confusing. Obviously the .png "knows" the background is transparent but I can't see it that way.

I'm new to Affinity although I used PagePlus and the other two as a casual user for many years. I'm just completely stuck.

I'm running a Mac with Catalina and just purchased all three programs from the Affinity store. I'm attaching the transparent Designer/Photo  image and the not-transparent .png. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Logo transparent attempt.afdesign

Logo not-transparent.png

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4 hours ago, SharonPerp said:

Obviously the .png "knows" the background is transparent but I can't see it that way.

What are you using to view the png file? Not all apps 'know' to display transparency as a checkered background, but most do.

For example, when I open your png file in Apple's Preview app, the checkered background is there, confirming that it does indeed include a transparent background:

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Hmmm, I opened it in Apple Preview, too, and the background is white in mine. But, when I click on it here in the browser, it's transparent. Some kind of problem with my Preview settings?

AHA! Ugh, so much time wasted! I went into Preview's window preferences and right away it showed a little white button. Clicked on it, changed it to green and boom, image background is green. But, I don't see any way to show a transparent background in Preview, so, it's still confounding. I'm running latest version of everything.

At least I have a workaround. Thank you for your response, I don't think I would ever have figured this out!

Posted
28 minutes ago, SharonPerp said:

But, I don't see any way to show a transparent background in Preview, so, it's still confounding.

For Apple's Preview app, try "Show Document Background" under the View menu, and if there is transparency in an image, then a checkerboard pattern should appear and indicate that transparency.

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Ack, you are the best! I feel dumb for not having found this, but I'm up to my ears in backlog and don't have a lot of brainspace for thinking beyond it.

Thank you so much, worked beautifully. Definitely happy to be back with Serif in new incarnation and such a helpful forum.

:-)

Sharon

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