White background

What about just using a transparent background instead of white? that way it doesn’t matter what colour the background is.

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I make images for web using photoshop frequently – invariably for use against a white background. Is there any easy way to preview the image against a white background with no border? At present, the work area (containing the image), when maximised, is displayed with a border and the surrounding space is grey. can this be changed/is there a mode in photoshop for this kind of thing?

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I make images for web using photoshop frequently – invariably for use against a white background. Is there any easy way to preview the image against a white background with no border? At present, the work area (containing the image), when maximised, is displayed with a border and the surrounding space is grey. can this be changed/is there a mode in photoshop for this kind of thing?

I think I see what you’re asking. No, I don’t think Photoshop has a function for viewing the image on a borderless white field (unfortunately; I can see how something like that could be handy).

Are you on a Mac or PC? On a Mac, you could write an Applescript (which you could trigger via keyboard command using Quicksilver, for example), that would Select All, Copy Merged, create a new document the size of your monitor resolution, Paste, and switch to fullscreen view. That’s hackish huh?

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I make images for web using photoshop frequently – invariably for use against a white background. Is there any easy way to preview the image against a white background with no border? At present, the work area (containing the image), when maximised, is displayed with a border and the surrounding space is grey. can this be changed/is there a mode in photoshop for this kind of thing?

I think I see what you’re asking. No, I don’t think Photoshop has a function for viewing the image on a borderless white field (unfortunately; I can see how something like that could be handy).
Are you on a Mac or PC? On a Mac, you could write an Applescript (which you could trigger via keyboard command using Quicksilver, for example), that would Select All, Copy Merged, create a new document the size of your monitor resolution, Paste, and switch to fullscreen view. That’s hackish huh?

Try this:

Changing the Matte Color. You can change the neutral gray background color that surrounds your image when you’re in full-screen mode or when you expand the document window larger than the image itself. Just pick a foreground color, and then Shift-click on the background with the Paint Bucket tool (it’s in the Gradient tool’s popout menu). It’s a good way to preview how an image will look if you’re going to place it on a colored background.

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Hope that solves your problem. The PC I’m usinmg at the moment doesn’t have Photoshop, so I cant tell you if it gets rid of the black border that appears when the background is grey.

All the Best

Richard

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I make images for web using photoshop frequently – invariably for use against a white background. Is there any easy way to preview the image against a white background with no border? At present, the work area (containing the image), when maximised, is displayed with a border and the surrounding space is grey. can this be changed/is there a mode in photoshop for this kind of thing?

I think I see what you’re asking. No, I don’t think Photoshop has a function for viewing the image on a borderless white field (unfortunately; I can see how something like that could be handy).
Are you on a Mac or PC? On a Mac, you could write an Applescript (which you could trigger via keyboard command using Quicksilver, for example), that would Select All, Copy Merged, create a new document the size of your monitor resolution, Paste, and switch to fullscreen view. That’s hackish huh?

Try this:

Changing the Matte Color. You can change the neutral gray background

color

that surrounds your image when you’re in full-screen mode or when you expand the document window larger than the image itself. Just pick a foreground color, and then Shift-click on the background with the Paint Bucket tool (it’s in the Gradient tool’s popout menu). It’s a good

way to

preview how an image will look if you’re going to place it on a colored background.

That is EXTREMELY HANDY. I just tried it and no, it doesn’t get rid of the black border, nor does it work in "full screen mode," only in "full screen mode with menu bar." Still, that’s a lot closer to what the OP wanted without going through a lot of extra rigamarole.

Now if you could just turn off the "artboard boundary" line, you’d be lost in a sea of white with your little graphic.

Shamelessly copied from:

http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=30163&s eqNum=2&rl=1
🙂

Hope that solves your problem. The PC I’m usinmg at the moment

doesn’t have

Photoshop, so I cant tell you if it gets rid of the black border that appears when the background is grey.

All the Best

Richard

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Aaron

"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." — John Stuart Mill