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samsonk3610678
Participant
January 1, 2018
Question

Always opens with white Background

  • January 1, 2018
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Hi,

I just started using Photoshop. I have cropped parts of images in the past and put them as a new layer and the background used to be always white. Now its white and it's always white even when I open a new project with no files in them and the layer is a new layer. Please Help.

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Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 1, 2018

I'm not entirely following.   

When you create a new document, the background layer is always going to be filled with white.  That's normal, and I am not sure that there's any other way to open a new document.  Are you saying that you copy parts of an image layer to a new layer?  Is that not working for you?

It might be easier if you try to duplicate this problem, and then copy your entire workspace to the clipboard, and paste it to this thread (Ctrl v)

samsonk3610678
Participant
January 1, 2018

Sorry I wrote 'white' instead of 'transparent' in my sentence ("background always used to be transparent"). What I meant is that when I used to make a selection with the selection tool, make it a new layer and turn off visibility on all other layers, the background of the selection used to be transparent and not white.

Mylenium
Legend
January 1, 2018

Without system information and other details like exact version of PS, tool settings, document settings etc. nobody can tell you much. From display issues to a wrong setting on a tool that simply fills empty regions with the background color this could be anything.

Mylenium