How to Change the artboard background color in Photoshop CC 2015

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How to Change the artboard background color in Photoshop CC 2015

[hectorubie]

Erwin1972   Thanks to you i fixed my problem. THANK YOU!

[lauras1069910]

Someone should probably tell this to Adobe Tech Support. I was on chat with them for an hour adn a half yesterday and they couldn't fix it. 30 seconds on this forum and it's done.

Thanks guys!

[UXLane]

This is a major downfall of the feature I almost abandoned using it until this. They need to point that out in the 3 minute intro video as I was about to pull my hair out trying to figure this out!

[kristymck]

I'm experiencing the same issue and trying to change the drawing mode, however its greyed out (See screenshot). Does anyone know how I can get round this?

[TheNeuroFdn]

Same here - could it be that we are using low spec PC's so the graphics card wont let us change from Basic?

[彪杨91784037]

very very think you!  find it!

[tomasky]

Maybe your PC isn't meet for requirements.

[sagedulh92489364]

Wow, greats. I changed the drawing mode to "normal". Now I am able to change the color of artboard background. Thanks Erwin1972.

[farnnn]

Does't work for me. My Drawing Mode was set to Advanced, changed it to Normal...artboard still remain white. Unfortunate that the only other workaround is switching to RGB mode because I work primarily in CMYK.

It's a little baffling that the Artboard feature was clearly made with web/devices in mind when it actually has plenty of uses in print.

[staticmotion229]

Thank you so much fixed my problem

[David_Pire]

yesss finally i was losing my mind jejejej THANKS...6 STARS

[Branden Z]

That fixed it, thank you!

[jeffreyb76]

Thanks! Last time I was on chat/Phone with Adobe for 2 hours. It happened back and I was able to fix it in 10sec!

@Adobe you should pin this post it will save you time and money with your customer support...

[synzzzer]

Thank you so much!

[joelyoder]

Unfortunately, my iMac hasn't been fixed by any of the solutions above - including changing the Advanced performance settings and color space. The issue is only present if I have artboards turned on - removing artboards from a document by merging all layers fixes the issue immediately. No being able to see the edges of the artboards makes the feature pretty much useless for me...

[chromax]

I had no performance options for GPU processor (just onboard gfx).

But I fixed it in the BIOS to set the shared graphics memory ("dvmt pre-allocated") to 512MB. It was default on 64.

Now I can change the color.

[juliac45547854]

"BIOS"? Could you elaborate more on that part? I've tried everything else in this thread and nothing is working.

[Swandive stream]

Sort of works. Ish. Now I'm getting transparent grid around some parts etc. Kinda buggy, could do with fixing this. I'm familiar with artboard in Illustrator but this behaves differently.

[redyapper]

I had to change mine to "advanced" to work.

[Swandive stream]

As of the latest version it now can be done same as a normal document in Photoshop (right-click).

[mfoshage]

Thank you!

Agreed, Adobe, get it together on this one. Been trolling forums, official texts, etc. for a long time trying to figure this one out. Maybe that speaks more to my skills than the problem, but still... months in the making and I'm a much happier camper now.

[D1verDad]

Anyone know if there are any plans for implementing it in CMYK  mode?  It's a very useful feature to keep track of different stages of my drawings prior to printing but not practical if I can't see the borders of my Artboards. Working in RGB isn't a great option for me since I match my colors to CMYK Pantone chips.

[tonewilliams]

I had this problem too and my attempt to modify preferences didn't seem to work because the graphics options were dimmed out. (I loaded Windows 10 on an older Dell Latitude w/ an i5 and no special graphic cards or drivers.)

To resolve this issue, I selected "sRBG IEC61966-2.1" from the Color Profile field in the Advanced section of the New... dialog box. (In other words, I selected File > New and made sure the Color Profile dropdown had an actual selection.) If you don't have this option in your dropdown, try a similar one. Before, when "Don't Color Manage this Document" was selected, I had an all white canvas and artboard. The problem seemed to fix itself once I chose an RGB-based profile.

The only other peculiar thing is that I cannot reproduce the error. Now that I switch back to "Don't Color Manage this Document," I no longer have the all-white issue. Anyway, it's gone and I hope it never comes back!

Hope this helps someone!

P.S. The "Instagram" Document Type illustrated in the image above is a preset I created; it's not an actual preset.

[creative karanja]

Worked for me. Thanks for sharing.

[THR_online]

Doesn't work for me! 😞

I am running CC 2017, on a brand new mac, and El capitan...