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Customizing the transparency checkerboard

Customizing the transparency checkerboard - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Customizing the transparency checkerboard

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to customize the checkerboard pattern so that you can better distinguish transparency from opacity inside Photoshop. So the first thing you want to do is go up to the Edit menu. That'll be the Photoshop menu on the Mac, and then drop down to the Preferences command, which isn't nearly this low in the menu on the Mac, and then finally choose Transparency & Gamut. You'll see these checkerboard options up here at the top of the screen. Now you can dial in a custom color if you like just by clicking on one of these swatches, so one swatch is one set of checkers, and the other swatch is the other one. So for example, I could click on the white one, and drag this circle around inside the color field all the way up to the upper right corner if I want red, and then I could click OK and now I'll see this red and gray pattern at work in the background, which is a little garish, but at least it's obvious. Now you also have the option of changing…

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