Transparency tool and table

[Steve_1010]

Hi,

I'm trying to put a transparency on a table. It's worked countless times in the past but now ONLY the text of the table is becoming transparent, not the actual table itself. Any suggestions how to get the table and text to follow the transparency tool?

Thank you so much,

Steve. 

table transparency.afpub

[carl123]

1 hour ago, Steve_1010 said:

It's worked countless times in the past

Do you have one of those documents/tables you can upload to the forum?

For comparison

[Steve_1010]

Hi Ando,

Thank you for the suggestions. I wasn't sure what you meant by using the white rectangle, but I followed your video on making a group, and that fixed it. Thank you for taking the time to make the video, that was appreciated. 

[Steve_1010]

Hi Carl,

That file I included is just a copy and paste from the file I originally used (it was just too big to include). Here's an example of what I did yesterday with the same table. There is no '4' in this file as I was trying to eliminate excess to find the problem. 

[carl123]

22 minutes ago, Steve_1010 said:

Here's an example of what I did yesterday with the same table.

Hi Steve

We need a copy of a previous Affinity document (i.e. the .afpub document, not a screenshot or jpg/png file) where the table has the transparency correctly applied to it.

Any old document will do, it does not have to be the one you are working on now

[lepr]

[Deleted: grouping solution already posted by @anto]

[Steve_1010]

Hi Carl, 

Got it, Cheers.

Here is the file that worked at one point. But it started not working. I think it might be the grouping situation. 

table 2.afpub

[carl123]

1 hour ago, Steve_1010 said:

Hi Carl, 

Got it, Cheers.

Here is the file that worked at one point. But it started not working. I think it might be the grouping situation. 

 

Thanks, yes it looks like previously you may have been applying transparency to a group your table was in rather than directly to the table itself

In the future if you only have a table, you can just group it by itself and apply transparency to the group and that should provide the effect you want

[Steve_1010]

Hi Anto,

Thanks for the video, now I get it. Cheers. 

[Steve_1010]

Thanks to everyone's help, I've been able to apply the transparency tool to the table (which needs to be grouped). Cheers for that.

My problem I'm encountering when I export this file is that it's not following the PNG format I was expecting. The background which I would expect to be completely transparent is one white rectangle (as seen in the fa.png attachment)

The checkmarkgradient.png attachment is what I was expecting (I am not sure how I successfully achieved it in the second attachment).

I've tried a variety of approaches, e.g., export "Selection Area" and "Selection Only", but I've had no luck in reproducing this effect. 

Any suggestions how to make the white areas completely transparent? 

[Steve_1010]

Hmm, the way it is displaying in the forum is different from the way it displays in the Mac finder. Here's what I'm seeing. 

[DennisFaulkner]

On 2/7/2023 at 10:52 AM, anto said:

You can use also FX Gradient Overlay

 

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Edited February 23, 2023 by DennisFaulkner