Showing the grey-and-white Transparency Grid

[Josh Robern]

I'm just getting started with Affinity Photo and have a long track record with using Photoshop for a lot of very low-level stupid things.  Today's task is scanning music for use in a Keynote, and I need to get black text and notation on a transparent background.  I use the non-contiguous flood selector to select all the white and near-white of the scan.  Then I hit delete and... the white background is deleted.  But it doesn't display the grey-and-white grid; the screen looks nearly identical to before.  I can see in the layer thumbnail that all those white and off-white pixels have been deleted.  When I save the file, it works just fine with a transparent background.  But I can't see what's transparent and what's not while in Affinity Photo.

To add to my confusion and frustration, I somehow did something different with a different file, because in that one, the transparency grid is visible.

I'm sure I've unclicked a view option or something similarly simple, but I can't figure out what I've done differently.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Document > Transparent Background, probably.

 

[Josh Robern]

...I could have sworn I tried that, multiple times. >.<

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, Josh Robern said:

...I could have sworn I tried that, multiple times. >.<

Perhaps you tried it at a time when there was no transparency.

[PixelPest]

Affinity Photo? I don´t need to set Transparent background color- works with JPG instantly: place image - select with Flood Select Tool - hit delete - shows checkerboard.

[Carnivorous Tofu]

On 5/1/2020 at 11:55 AM, walt.farrell said:

walt.farrell

Document > Transparent Background, probably.

 

Thanks!

Had to do that when  working on an image imported and then rasterized from a .pdf

[Annie Wan]

@walk.farrell said:

"Document > Transparent Background, probably."

THANK YOU. This is what I was looking for.

Now I wish Affinity Photo would have a setting to change the white/grey squares of the transparent background to another colour pair (e.g. blue/green was my go-to in Photoshop before I moved)