RobertLF Posted March 9, 2022 Posted March 9, 2022 I'm trying to learn AD by following along with various tutorials on YouTube. In every tutorial, the instructor starts with his or her surface looking like a white piece of paper. But when I create a new (Web) document, it looks like a gray checkerboard. Why doesn't my surface look white like everyone else's? I would expect that this might be addressed in the Basic Operations video "New document with templates" but it's not. Thanks. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. A checkerboard pattern usually indicates you've chosen for your document to have a Transparent Background, either in the File > New dialog or after the fact. You can check that in Designer by using File > Document Setup where you'll find it on the Color tab. RobertLF 1 Quote -- 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Catshill Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 You may wish to check that you don’t have the grid turned on in the View menu. Quote
RobertLF Posted March 10, 2022 Author Posted March 10, 2022 18 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. A checkerboard pattern usually indicates you've chosen for your document to have a Transparent Background, either in the File > New dialog or after the fact. You can check that in Designer by using File > Document Setup where you'll find it on the Color tab. Thank you Walt! This solved my problem. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 You're welcome. Quote -- 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
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