NCOLEAMY Posted September 15, 2023 Posted September 15, 2023 I've been searching for a setting to create a darker workspace background, but ...unless I'm overlooking something, Affinity hasn't implemented one yet. It seems that dragging out a rectangle is obviously the go to work around for everyone, but (my personal opinion only) I'm just not 'feeling it' with a bland background. I've gone ahead and made my own background. Yes, importing it each time I work with Affinity is a bit on the annoying side, but I thought I'd share it here.
walt.farrell Posted September 15, 2023 Posted September 15, 2023 Are you talking about a dark workspace background or a dark document background? For the workspace (which contains the document) you should be able to use the Dark User Interface, via the application Settings (or Preferences in V1). -- 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 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 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 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
NCOLEAMY Posted September 16, 2023 Author Posted September 16, 2023 The Heading reads Workspace Background, but if I'm using the wrong nomenclature, then I apologize. A picture is worth a 1000 words, so I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2023 Posted September 16, 2023 The workspace is the intent dark area in your upper-left screenshot. In your upper-right screenshot you have created or opened a document which contains an Artboard. In your lower-left screenshot you have created or opened a document without an Artboard. And finally you have document with your layer added to make the document background darker. Thanks for the screenshots to clarify this. -- 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 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 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 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
markw Posted September 16, 2023 Posted September 16, 2023 If you are on a Mac the default checker Transparency background can be “hacked” to something darker. See loukash’s post here: As always with any kind of “hack” like this you do so at your own risk! macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
loukash Posted September 16, 2023 Posted September 16, 2023 Just now, markw said: See loukash’s post here Yeah, still works with v2.1.1 on MacOS Ventura. 2 minutes ago, markw said: As always with any kind of “hack” like this you do so at your own risk! The Terminal.app must be your friend! MacBookAir 15": MacOS Sonoma > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 18 > Affinity v2
markw Posted September 16, 2023 Posted September 16, 2023 @loukash In my experiment I just used; Go To Folder… in Finder and used the path you posted in your thread without using Terminal at all. Worked fine. macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
NCOLEAMY Posted September 18, 2023 Author Posted September 18, 2023 Thank You Thank You Thank You! I searched for a post, but didn't see that one. Maybe my searching skills need a refresher course. However, ... searching the app's Contents Folder, I managed to follow that path easily enough. (The Go To Folder just did not want to cooperate.) For the Windows folks, the background that I created is basically the same thing, just already tiled and much more condensed. Grab it if you want to check it out. You'll just have to resize it for your needs.
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