Removing checkered effect on transparent stock images

[saa32676758]

How do I remove the checkered effect easily. I’ve tried all the possible ways over the last 2 days, various YouTube videos and tutorials from variois forums but none of the methods described make it look nice enough. I want to use glitter on a photo - the stock image looks nice but it has that awful checkered effect! Why can’t the images just be transparent like they’re called transparent!!

[Daniel E Lane]

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.

[saa32676758]

Of course I wish to purchase the image - in fact I wish to subscribe to the entire collection. (It’s Adobe Stock by the way). But how can I be sure I wish to purchase and subscribe (a year is quite a commitment) if I can’t see what my end result will be like right now??

I understand re copyright (it’s quite obvious because there is an “Adobe“ watermark, but why have a permanent checkered effect even in preview?! It doesn’t allow the user to see if the image works well in the project?!

[jane-e]

saa32676758  wrote

It’s Adobe Stock by the way). But how can I be sure I wish to purchase and subscribe (a year is quite a commitment) if I can’t see what my end result will be like right now??

but why have a permanent checkered effect even in preview?!

Again, I have found that when people use this checkerboard technique, they put it on a separate layer that can be turned off. And again, if you post a number of an Adobe Stock photo, I would be happy to check this for you. The flat jpeg preview will not show if it is on a layer.

You will also find a different size in the preview and the final. The preview is just that, a preview, and it's always been enough for me to tell if it will work or if I need to try another.

[saa32676758]

I don’t have it on me I will try to locate it later. But why should it matter which image it is - I would want to do the same to another transparent image another day and superimpose it (or layer it over) my own photo.

[gener7]

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."

[Trevor.Dennis]

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.

[Daniel E Lane]

But with that example, You could have just cut out the logo in the blue square and recreated the text in 1/10th the time.

[Trevor.Dennis]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Daniel+E+Lane  wrote

But with that example, You could have just cut out the logo in the blue square and recreated the text in 1/10th the time.

Wash your mouth out with soap and water, and say 100 times, when I am going to make a vector object, I'll make a vector object, and not leave half of it as substandard scanned or grabbed raster. 

Goodness.  I am going to have nightmares about that comment tonight.

Being slightly more serious, it took as long to track down the font as it did to recreate the blue rectangle, (I work very quickly) and when we encounter new users, we try to encourage practising good workflows, and learning the more useful tools.

[Semaphoric]

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

    

[saa32676758]

Had tried that before posting on here. I watched hundreds of YouTube tutorials and videos on various ways to remove the checkered effect.

[jane-e]

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.

[Sebastian Bleak]

Do you have rights to use this image?

[saa32676758]

if I purchase it will it sort it out?

[Trevor.Dennis]

It feels weird that an Adobe stock image would have a hard wired chequerboard to indicate transparency.    I never use it myself, so I'm only guessing, but I thought that you get a low res version of the stock image to try, and a full res version when you pay. 

When you say 'subscribe to the entire collection' and 'a year is quite a commitment', are you still talking about stock  images or CC subscription?  It's getting confusing.

[saa32676758]

Both - I will only subscribe to the collection of Adobe stock images if I know I can achieve what I’m aiming for in a SIMPLE way not by doing a hundred and one things JUST to remove a checkered effect.

and photoshop, I also wish to purchase (currently on a trial) but again only if I find it useful.

at Present I am struggling to just apply some glitter to my photo of my daughter!!