: Transparent artboard backgrounds in Photoshop I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in

@Vandalay110

....Or you could create the board from the outset:

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@Shanna688

You can take a screen shot and then open it as image. It's simple and you don't have to worry about white background .

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@Nickens508

Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: Transparent (white is selected by default).

You can check a quick (12sec) video here:

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@Nimeshi706

As of Photoshop CC 2015.5 you can now have artboards with transparent backgrounds.

Either create a new Artboard and select Transparent under the Background Contents menu or, if you have an existing artboard, simply select it in the layers panel, open up the properties windows and change the background with the Artboard background color dropdown. (Note that you can change the background of each individual artboard separately or change them all at once by selecting the artboards in the layer panel.)


Screenshot from 5 Hidden Gems in Photoshop CC

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@Yeniel278

While you create a new file (menu > NEW). Select "Background Contents" drop to Transparent... Now you will get a transparent artboard.

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@Kevin459

As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..

1) Take a certain size of file(file A)

2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.



3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg.

4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.

5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).

6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.

7) Now you will have a file like this.


That's it... Good luck !

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@Odierno310

Select the background layer.
Double click so it is no longer locked, it will rename as layer 0.
select all within your canvas (cmd + a) and delete.

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