Techman2872 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 I opened a black and white .eps file in Designer, and I want to remove the white background, making it transparent. I switch to the pixel persona, then click the eraser tool, but it will only erase the black, not the white. What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Techman2872. If you only want to make the white background effectively transparent (so that whatever is behind it shows through) you can simply select the layer in the Layers panel and set its blend mode to ‘Multiply’. If you want to make the white background actually transparent (so that you see a transparency chequerboard when there’s nothing on a lower layer) you can use blend ranges to achieve the desired result: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 13 hours ago, Techman2872 said: I opened a black and white .eps file in Designer, and I want to remove the white background, making it transparent. I switch to the pixel persona, then click the eraser tool, but it will only erase the black, not the white. What am I doing wrong? Try enabling "Transparent background" option in the colour section of File>Document Setup... A grey and white checkerboard will appear wherever the document is transparent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Sometimes some .eps files simply have a white background at the bottom of the layers, you just have to hide or delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filoplume Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 7/24/2020 at 1:56 PM, Alfred said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Techman2872. If you only want to make the white background effectively transparent (so that whatever is behind it shows through) you can simply select the layer in the Layers panel and set its blend mode to ‘Multiply’. If you want to make the white background actually transparent (so that you see a transparency chequerboard when there’s nothing on a lower layer) you can use blend ranges to achieve the desired result: Hi, I can't read the rest of your instructions. I would like option B! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 2 hours ago, filoplume said: I can't read the rest of your instructions. I would like option B! Clicking on the title or the arrow (see screenshot below) should take you to the other post, but I’ve also copied the text and pasted it here: Quote Go to the Layers panel and click on the upper layer to select it. Now click on the ‘Blend Ranges’ gearwheel at the top of the panel to display the Blend Options dialog. At the top of the Source Layer Ranges graph you’ll see a line joining a black node on the left to a white node on the right. It’s at the top of the graph because everything is at 100% opacity, but if you drag the right-hand end all the way down you’ll make the white pixels in your image 0% opaque (i.e. 100% transparent). At this point the black pixels will still be 100% opaque but everything else will be semitransparent; to restore full opacity to all the non-white pixels, drag the left-hand end of the line straight across towards the right, stopping when the white pixels begin to reappear. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filoplume Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Alfred said: Clicking on the title or the arrow (see screenshot below) should take you to the other post, but I’ve also copied the text and pasted it here: That works too! Thank you Alfred. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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