Checkerboard V1

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Acheckerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played.[1] Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (88) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff (official tournaments), black and red (consumer commercial), or black and white (printed diagrams). An 88 checkerboard is used to play many other games, including chess, whereby it is known as a chessboard. Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards.

Martin Gardner featured puzzles based on checkerboards in his November 1962 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. A square checkerboard with an alternating pattern is used for games including:

while zooming through levels 0-17 all the imagery appears fine, the next step down to level 18 the imagery changes to the black/white checkerboard pattern but you can still see the GIS data (addresses, roads, etc), zoom to level 19 and the imagery comes back into view.

in the back of my mind, I was thinking I would have to rebuild (285gb worth of cache on our machine = 1 week of work) my relationship with the mosaic process is a love/hate...its frustrating that you have to wait so long to see if anything is wrong!

I tried to run it all in one geoprocess. Never could get it to work. I single out each step and I get one process to complete before the next process comences. Did you check settings? Worth a look here.

The checkerboard pattern represents transparency, which can be any colour depending on where the image is displayed. Why would you want it to be a solid colour? Just add a layer underneath and use the Paint Bucket with the colour you desire, which is a much more straightforward solution.

We just do not want the checker board visible at times, we would find it extremely useful to toggle it off or replace it with one of our own design. We have needs in our work flow that would be serviced greatly by any feature that would allow us to mod the display of that default checkerboard. Whether it be off/on, solid, colored, or of a certain design.

Cor'e =), once again. This is the only way you're going to do what you're asking for. Draw up your design and press Ctrl + C, it isn't hard. I can copy and paste a background onto the bottom layer in about 0.5 seconds. I don't see any reason for your complaints.

Another layer is not what we want, we do not want it part of the file and we do not want to load it as a layer every time and move it to the bottom of some 100 layers, it might get saved in the file and sent out. Plus, since we have many sizes of multi-layer images, we'd have to fiddle with canvas resize and centering etc., or perfectly pick the BG we want, that's a problem that software should solve, not humans. That's too much extra work to do, and to keep adding a layer and taking it out every time we show the image. If it was something we could select or turn on/off etc. then we'd have what we want. A checkerboard is just arbitrary anyhow and whatever design considerations it historically comes from is not written on a stone tablet, for us it'd be useful to be able to mod that BG.

Software is solving it. Checkerboard means transparency. If you don't want transparency, then you'll want the bottom layer anyway. If the checkerboard weren't there then you'd inadvertently send out files that had transparency when you didn't want to, or that were transparent in ways you did not like. I can't accept that this would be "too much work" -- all you have to do is select the bottom-most layer you already have, duplicate it, move it down 1 slot, and then fill it with white. Then check/uncheck its visibility as necessary and just save it in the .PDN file. No matter what, you are going to have a "transparency bug hazard", whether a checkerboard is there or whether the app lies to you and just fills in with white.

Your missing the point, the checkerboard is just the way someone decided to graphically display transparency in PDN, however, we want to graphically display it another way, meaning we want to customize that checkerboard in the PDN source code or plug-in, not remove it by adding a layer. Software should remove repetitive work cycles, i'm not saying for you to do this, we could, or someone else could. But, first i wanted to ask if it was already available, since it seemed plausible to us that it was an option.

Our desired scenario is to take instant (but not by prolonged layer manipulations meaning "extra work") screenshots without the checkerboard. And what we wanted as a transparency BG would NEVER EVER be (that would be extremely forbidden) put in the work or file itself, so it's best to be in the application itself, if only the PDN WE use.

I think you're missing the point everyone has been trying to get at. Rick gave you some advice in the post before yours, and I think that's the only possible way to get what you're wanting without adding more coding. From what info you've given us, there doesn't seem to be any difference in what you're asking for and what everyone has been telling you.

You keep saying that you "have needs in your workflow" but haven't given any explanation as to what these are. You've jumped to the conclusion* that the checkerboard is what needs to be configured. Without any more information, there's no way we can provide any other recommendations or guidance. As far as we know, Paint.NET is simply not cut out for what you need to do.

I do feel we have been answered on this. You may if you will consider it a way to always display our proprietary "watermark" BG in the transparent areas for in-house work that may leave the premises, verses everyone's conventional checkerboard, call it an IP security feature.

That sounds like something which should be solved by an actual security or rights management system, e.g. Office, SharePoint, NTFS, etc. Paint.NET does not add any security features, it only relies on what Windows enforces.

You might even be better off with a simple file naming convention, e.g. *_Confidential.* ... someone has to mark all files as confidential anyway, and that would make it apparent without even having to open the image in Paint.NET. It would be easy to write a scheduled task (batch file?) that trolled your content repository for files which are not tagged correctly and to quarantine/rename them as appropriate.

Still, I'm not seeing your logic here. If the transparency was only visible in your versions of Paint.NET, wouldn't that completely defeat the purpose unless you are taking Screencaps? The transparency screen you design would only be visible on your versions of Paint.NET, and this wouldn't, at all, work as a watermark. Try explaining one more time, and if I can't help with an idea, I guess that's that.

I don't know if I'm the only one having this issue but this is really starting to get on my nerves!

Is there any way to make a transparent background in Affinity Designer the usual checkerboard style instead of white?

It makes it impossible for me to work with white...

It's just not visible, I have been looking for the last hour online, and I know I looked before but ended up giving up...

If no one knows what I mean, I just drew a white line and it's not visible on the left hand side, but its evidently there as you can see on the right!

The white line is clearly visible on both sides of your screenshot. Others who have had your problem fixed it by correcting their monitor contrast or brightness levels, so I would suggest you try that.

I can change it if I change up monitor settings, but don't really want to have to do that every single time that I just want to make something, If there is a way please let me know! If not.... I feel like that should be implemented.

I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but its so frustrating!

Also walt.farrell even if you don't know a solution could you take a photo of your monitor screen with a phone camera or something just, so I know what my original image looks like for you!

I can change it if I change up monitor settings, but don't really want to have to do that every single time that I just want to make something, If there is a way please let me know! If not.... I feel like that should be implemented.

I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but its so frustrating!

I suspect that your monitor settings are probably incorrect, so just change them once, and everything should be fine. It is also possible that you need to adjust the lighting in the room where you're working, so you can work with the correct monitor settings.

In all other cases I've seen reported here, it was fixed by correcting the monitor settings (brightness or contrast). But I cannot claim to have seen all reports, nor do I know what other reports Serif might have received outside the forums. It is not a very frequent complaint here; I only remember one or two earlier reports in the time I've been following the forums.

It's not a blue cast but a selection box drawn over the right side of the image.

@vonekiller

What OS are you running? macOS or Windows?

In your initial screenshot you posted above the white stroke is visible on both sides of the image.

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