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What steps do I follow to export an image on an artboard without a white background in Affinity Designer for iPad. I created the image without a background. On the artboard layer I have 'checkboard background' checked. It still exports with white background. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

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Do you have the Matte enabled or disabled in the Export settings? (I show it disabled below.)

 

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-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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Posted

Strange. If I export a PNG using a transparent Artboard, and have the Matte disabled, I get transparency in the exported PNG.

Next question: what are you using to view the PNG? Possibly the viewing application is adding the white background for you?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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@walt.farrell Is the artboard supposed to have the transparent layer? It shows as white but I know it's transparent because I placed a colored square behind the image to test it. This is a confusing setup. There must be a way to know if it's going to be transparent before I waste time exporting and testing. I exported the png to my iPad folder but I can't tell if it's transparent or not. Then I add the file to iCloud, move it to file on desktop and drag it to photoshop and it has white background.

 

Posted

I just enabled transparency when I created the document, and the Artboard shows as a checkerboard.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

Posted

So is this another thing that Affinity Designer iPad can't do and do I need to create a new file? I have 11 files I need to export as pngs with transparent background and I would like to know how to do that. Is there some kind of best practices procedure that I need to follow to do this task? I can't believe it's 3 hours later and I still don't know how to do this most basic step.

 

 

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I'm somewhat confused by what you mean in the original post about having the checkerboard background checked on the Artboard layer. Do you see the artboard with a checkerboard? Or is it white?

There should be a way to change the transparency for the document, but I'm away from my iPad right now and I don't know the iPad apps well enough to tell you what it is. Sorry. On the desktop, there is certainly a way, under Document Setup in the File menu. Presumably it's in the document menu on the iPad, but I can't say where at this moment.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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If you’re working with an opaque *.afdesign document, go to the Document menu and choose ‘Canvas > Transparent Canvas’.

If you previously created a PNG image with an opaque background, go to ‘Layer Options’ in the Layers Studio and drag the right-hand end of the Source Layer Ranges graph all the way down to make the white area transparent.

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Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro
Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)

Posted

Alfred, that didn't work, the image is not on a background.

 

 

1. On the iPad app, under 'new document', I can choose 'transparent background' and 'create artboard' and that will create an artboard with a transparent background. I did not create my original file this way. I believe I just created a document and later on added new artboards.

 

2. My file has 7 artboards, all of them have white backgrounds but the thumbnails in the layers panel show transparent backgrounds. If I place a blue box on the artboard and place the blue box below the artwork, I can see the blue box so the artwork has no background.

 

3. I export the artboard as a png and it seems at some point the white bkg is added.

 

4. I would like to export pngs with transparent backgrounds, no white backgrounds.

 

5. I don't want to do anything advanced, I just want to export pngs with no bkgd. If I am doing something wrong and overlooking something basic,please let me know.

 

6. I'm sure there is a really simple way to do this that I am missing, so maybe someone, anyone, can kindly list the steps to do this properly.

 

7. Once again, I need this to work on Affinity Designer for the iPad, thanks

Posted

Menu: file > document setup > colour > ‘transparent background’ = checked?

Works for me on desktop. I guess there's something similar on the ipad.

Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2

Posted
1 hour ago, chbrier said:

that didn't work, the image is not on a background.

That works for me.

  1. I created a document without specifying that it should be transparent. 
  2. I then created several Artboards. All were white.
  3. I then used the Document menu, Canvas > Transparent Canvas and at that point all the Artboards have a checkerboard background,

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

Posted
1 hour ago, chbrier said:

Different on ipad

What are you using to view the png? Photo Library and Files quick viewer display images on a white canvas (not sure if this can be changed in iOS ). If you save to photo library or use Files app quick view you will get a white canvas regardless of image background. If you use a 3rd party app like Documents, it will display correctly (transparent background).

You can test this by reloading your png into affinity. It will have transparent background.

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M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, DM1 said:

Files quick viewer display images on a white canvas (not sure if this can be changed in iOS ).

Files Quick View seems to use a black background, for me. (I'm also not sure if it can be changed.)

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

Posted
12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Files Quick View seems to use a black background, for me. (I'm also not sure if it can be changed.)

That is odd. Mines definitely white (iOS 15.1) and I can’t find any settings to alter it. Maybe it varies by model.🤔

EDIT: You must have Dark mode turned on. That gives me a black background 😁

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M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

Posted
2 hours ago, chbrier said:

6. I'm sure there is a really simple way to do this that I am missing, so maybe someone, anyone, can kindly list the steps to do this properly.

Simply switch your iPad's 'Display and brightness' setting to Dark mode. You will now 'see' your transparent background appear as black. Non transparent backgrounds will show as colour or white.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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