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Participating Frequently
Jun 16, 2015 3:10 PM UTC
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P: Quick Export option to disable transparency trimming

There should be an option to disable the automatic trimming of exported elements to their transparency.
The trimming makes it problematic to easily place the exported elements in other softwares, e.g. 3D and compositing.

36 replies

Known Participant
Jul 12, 2018 2:57 PM UTC
+1

Yes PLEASE include an option for no trimming AND keeping position on canvas. Doing many web res 3D renders and need them to all be centered and exactly 1500px X 1500px. 
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Inspiring
May 25, 2018 4:52 PM UTC
Trimming a css spritesheet makes all of the coordinates change.
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Inspiring
May 25, 2018 4:48 PM UTC
+1

 i chose my canvas size for a reason. please do not override it without warning. it is simply not the expected behavior and causes me many issues.

WORKAROUND (also a pain but at least it works): flatten your image, then Save As... and select the filetype you would like to save as. this preserves the canvas size, even if there is transparency. After saving, undo the flatten.
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Inspiring
May 2, 2018 11:23 PM UTC
I NEED this, I export probably 20+ items a day
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Inspiring
May 2, 2018 2:56 PM UTC
This works well with icons that need an equal size transparent border on all sides, and are on their own separate layers.

Alternatively, when the icon/graphic is not centred within the transparent background try this:
File>Export>Layers to files...
If PNG is chosen as the exported file type there is an option to turn off 'trim layers'.
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90ep
Participating Frequently
Nov 7, 2017 9:41 AM UTC
Yes, it keeps the position. Can you provide video or screenhot, it should work normally and not to center the image.
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Diego Sanches
Participant
Oct 30, 2017 1:34 PM UTC
This doesn't work because it expands the canvas size based on the trimmed image, making it centered on canvas. The idea of exporting with full canvas size is to keep position (at least in my case).
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Diego Sanches
Participant
Oct 30, 2017 1:28 PM UTC
+1 to disable trim option. 
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90ep
Participating Frequently
Oct 20, 2017 11:06 AM UTC
If you want to keep specific canvas size for single / multiple images:

1. Choose multiple images from layer panel with shift + left mouse or right + left mouse
2. Click right mouse button on one of the selected layers 
3. Choose "Export as" from the popup menu

4. Choose those multiple images again from the left side panel
- Be patient, you have to wait for the images to load:
- First images load up - takes some time to complete
- Choosing images - takes some time to register

5. Change "Canvas size" on the right side, set it up e.g. 1920 x 1080 px
- Changing the width - takes time to register
- Changing the height - takes time to register

6. Photoshop will not trim the exported images.

This should be easier and faster.
Also Adobe, please add "Trim" checkbox to "export as" settings. 
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Participant
Aug 14, 2017 6:50 AM UTC
+1 for a "disable trim" option. 

I'm using Photoshop to create graphics assets for 2D-games. Artboards and Export-As could potentially be very powerful, but currently they're only useful for a non-transparent result.

The way I see it, Photoshop currently has two broken export options:
- Save for Web is unusable because it wants to s-l-o-w-l-y render a preview every time you change an option.

- Export As is unusable because it's impossible to define cropping areas for image assets.
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