Removing checkered effect on transparent stock images

Do you have rights to use this image?

What file format is the image in?

What have you tried?

Are the images from Adobe Stock?

Some of the AI/EPS files that I have downloaded have had the checkerboard pattern on a separate layer that I could just turn off by clicking the eyeball, so check the Layers panel if you are in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Otherwise, give us a specific number of any Adobe Stock that you bought that does this, and we can check it for you.

If it's just the Photoshop transparency indication, you can set that to "None" in the preferences:

Taking your request at face value, as there are definitely times when I need to knock out a hard wired transparency grid, the answer is still ít depends on the subject.

I'll use this as it was on my screen from another thread. In this case, it is more problematic than you might think.

The Hard Light blend mode knocks out mid greys, but those tonal value  are exactly what anti aliasing consists of.

So the chequerboard has gone, but just look at the damage it has done to the text.

We can target the grey squares more precisely by selecting an area of the chequerboard, and adding a Levels layer.

The properties show just two  tonal values now. A spike  for the whites, and another for the grey.

Bringing the white point exactly  to that point, makes  everything above that point full white.  It  has  still damaged the text anti aliasing, but not so much so.  We could bring the now slightly lighter text to full black to make an alpha mask from, but that is  going to damage the aa even more.  So it's not a straight forward fix.

This may not be a copy protect when you say the image is transparent.

Photoshop displays a checkerboard to indicate transparency. You could create a layer underneath and fill it with a desired color to see if that's the case.

I may not have seen too many images but usually there an intrusive translucent logo watermark in case of copy protection that can't easily be removed.

If I'm wrong, "pay the man."

That "checkered effect" you speak of is a water mark specifically made to protect the image from people trying to use it without permission. The photographer or designer or whoever created the image you are talking about would like to be compensated for their work. So you should either purchase the image correctly, or go to google and refine your search for images that are right's free.