: Why is there a transparent canvas behind my artboards in Photoshop? I don't understand why photoshop is doing this. Every time I add another artboard, it adds more to the background canvas

@Cody3331749

This is actually how artboards really work, they're essentially like grouped clipping masks on top of the canvas, and if you have the artboard setting set to auto scale canvas it will grow/shrink. This is why if you were working with the animation feature in photoshop and tried to export as a gif file, the canvas size might be larger than what you set as an artboard.

It seems that there was a loading error when loading up photoshop that caused the part of code they added that hides the canvas behind the artboards to not work.

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@Nimeshi706

It looks like your entire document has a transparent background. You have to create another layer filled with white on top of that layer 1 and merge it down so you have a white background,not transparent. I hope this helps, I don't use artboards very often in PS. I know when you create a new document, its asks what type (which is where you choose artboard) and if you want a white or transparent background.
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