Checkerboard background – make it go away?

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Mar 12, 2006
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When I try to reduce the opacity or my photo (a bitmap), or, if I try to hide it by clicking on the layers’ little leftmost box, I get a gray-and-white checkerboard background instead of a plain white backgound. I can’t seem to make it go away. I want the background to be solid white, so I can see my other layers. What to do? Help. littleberry
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edjh
Mar 12, 2006
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When I try to reduce the opacity or my photo (a bitmap), or, if I try to hide it by clicking on the layers’ little leftmost box, I get a gray-and-white checkerboard background instead of a plain white backgound. I can’t seem to make it go away. I want the background to be solid white, so I can see my other layers. What to do? Help. littleberry
That checkerboard denotes transparency. It does not prevent you from seeing other layers. You can turn it off in Edit>Preferences and changing Grid size to none.

I’ve only known one professional who worked without the checkerboard and I found it confusing to look at stuff on his machine. IMHO it’s much better to use the checkerboard.
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KatWoman
Mar 12, 2006
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When I try to reduce the opacity or my photo (a bitmap), or, if I try to hide it by clicking on the layers’ little leftmost box, I get a gray-and-white checkerboard background instead of a plain white backgound. I can’t seem to make it go away. I want the background to be solid white, so I can see my other layers. What to do? Help. littleberry
That checkerboard denotes transparency. It does not prevent you from seeing other layers. You can turn it off in Edit>Preferences and changing Grid size to none.

I’ve only known one professional who worked without the checkerboard and I found it confusing to look at stuff on his machine. IMHO it’s much better to use the checkerboard.
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

does bitmap support transparency?
Won’t it will add the white when you save it anyway?

you can always make a temporary white layer to hide the grid as you work. I often do that (or black or other for web design)
I would not shut off the grid
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davsf
Mar 12, 2006
I used EDIT>PREFERENCES>TRANSPARCNY & GAMUT>GRID SIZE=NONE, and that gave me the white background I was seeking. Whenever I toggle the "visibility" icon (leftmost) for Layer 0, then the bitmap goes away completely (which is what I want), but my "path" (set of curved lines drawn with the pen tool) remain visitlbe.
What I am doing is using the pen tool to TRACE over a bitmap by hand, and I will want to save (and see) my line art without the bitmap. NOTE: I am having another problem trying to do this trace, and I am starting different thread for it – please advise on that other thread if you can help. Thanks, littleberry

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