The Paper Fade slider in Composition Mode acts a little strangely. (Is it actually supposed to fade the paper or the screen background behind it? If it’s supposed to fade the background, shouldn’t it be called “Background Fade”?)
Sliding the little slider square almost all the way to the left will at first just fade the background, and then after a second or two the paper will pop from view as well.
When the slider is sent back to the right, only the background will unfade at first, then the paper will pop back to opaque after a couple of seconds.
I’m also able to interact with the buttons on the main program and my task bar while still in Composition Mode when the screen background is faded all the way out. The bottom bar in Composition Mode drops back down also, and is hard to bring back up, possibly because of being able to interact with my task bar when faded out. I’m not sure if these behaviors are intended, but just in case they aren’t I thought I’d mention them anyway.
I use Windows 10, up to date afaik, and am currently using Release Candidate 5, which is installed on a flash drive with my test project. I apologize, it’s been a while since I was last on the forums, so if these have been addressed already or if these are intended features then feel free to ignore this.
Also… having the slider partway along (as in, not on either end) causes both the background and the paper to fade, and unlike with the extremes the paper never pops back into opaque-ness.
(I just… wanted to make it so I could see what time it was… 
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Again, not sure if this is an intended feature. Would rather just the background fade and not the paper tbh, or at least have seperate sliders for the two, if it is.
No, this is definitely a bug. When either a backdrop or a textured background is set for composition mode, the slider in the control bar should only fade the paper, down from opaque on the right to completely transparent on the left. When there is no backdrop and the background is simply set to a colour, this slider does change to “Background Fade” and then should fade that background colour, as you’d assume, from opaque to transparent, without affecting the paper.
From your screenshots, it looks as though you have a large image set as the composition mode screen background texture, in Options: Appearance: Composition Mode: Colors. Is that correct?
That option tiles the image in the background and is the default for all projects. There’s a separate per-project option meant more for the sort of setup you have, with a single large image to cover the screen. That’s found in Project > Project Settings > Background Images. I’m not reproducing the paper fade error using a backdrop image this way (there does seem to be a bit of a lag on the slider, so the transparency isn’t adjusting visibly as I slide it, but it’s correct once I set it and click into the text), so you may also have some better luck with it. Try resetting your composition mode background to a solid color and then set the image as the composition mode backdrop for your project and see how that works for you.
Thanks for responding to me. I tried what you suggested, but it seems that the background image I set through Project>Project Settings>Background Images is getting overridden by the solid color in the Options>Appearance>Composition Mode>Colors setting, and now doesn’t appear at all, even when messing with the Paper/Background Fade slider.
Though you are right that the slider behaves itself since changing back to a solid color in the Options menu.
That I haven’t seen before, or seen reports of. It looks as though the backdrop isn’t being recognized at all–note it says “Background Fade” in your screenshots, where it should say “Paper Fade” (and act as such) if it recognized the backdrop. Could you try closing and reopening the project to see if that makes a difference? Also since you used the “Choose from disk” option, you could try instead importing the image into the project binder and then selecting it as the backdrop via “Use image from project” to see if that changes anything. (Either of course should work and should always be overriding the composition mode background color set in Options; this is just to experiment with what might not be working properly in your project.) You might also try choosing a different image from your computer (for the From Disk option) to see if it makes a difference.
Restarting the program and selecting different images (also a jpeg rather than a png this time in case that made a difference) to use from the disk didn’t have any effect. Also, since the beta and project are running from a flash drive, I tried adding the image to the flash drive too (separate from the project itself) in case it was being picky about where the file was coming from, but this also didn’t work. Importing the image into the project and using the “Use image from project” option, however, appears to have worked and seems to be functioning as you intended.
