Changing workspace background colour - how ?

[oldwestern]

Hi,

I'd like to set a colour (not the default black) for the workspace background which is different to the document area, but I can't see how to do this.

Can anyone help please?

 

Cheers,

H.

[walt.farrell]

You can't set a color. You can change the shade of gray using the Preferences for the User Interface. Adjust the Background Gray Level.

But that's about all you can do.

[oldwestern]

Thanks for your help. Yes, I saw & tried that, but it made no observable difference to the workspace background.

Maybe workspace colour is something Affinity might look into.

Cheers,

H.

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, oldwestern said:

Yes, I saw & tried that, but it made no observable difference to the workspace background.

It should enable you to change it to pure white or pure black or any shade of grey between those two extremes.

If it is not doing that, make sure you have selected the correct slider. Note that there are two, one for artboard backgrounds & the other for documents that do not use artboards.

[carl123]

9 hours ago, oldwestern said:

Yes, I saw & tried that, but it made no observable difference to the workspace background.

It has no immediate effect with no document open but you should be able to see it change in real-time if you create or have opened a document on screen

[oldwestern]

Thanks you all for your input.

I closed and opened the document again and this time the sliders in preferences worked.

Cheers,

H.