Remove vector transparency grids

[Jaydude-wb]

Please stop offering vector illustrations with the Transparency grid included as actual vector squares.

This is annoying and requires a lot of labour to get rid of it, more  because those are not in separate layer, but intertwined with the art work.

Use a transparency grid in the online preview, but not in the vector download, please. It makes no sense.

[Abambo]

It all depends on the asset that is sold. Some assets need to be shown against a background to make sense:

An asset like this needs a background to show the effect. You would not buy it without this. Up to now, it did take me at most two minutes to get rid of any chequered background in such assets. If they are well done, the background is in a different layer. If they are less well done, the background is in a group, as le last element in the list (behind all others). If they are badly done, they are in two groups, also at the end of the list.

You need, however, access to Illustrator, as third party programs do not represent the datastructure correctly.

[JUST Water]

A simple gray rectangle would have been better, in this lighting effects example. (A checkered background isn't a realistic example of something likely be placed behind these graphics.) But whether it's gray or checkered, to address this user's complaint, if dummy backgrounds are necessary then they should be placed as locked objects (or better yet layers) so they don't get selected and thus do not need to be removed!

[Abambo]

if dummy backgrounds are necessary then they should be placed as locked objects (or better yet layers) so they don't get selected and thus do not need to be removed!

By @JUST Water 

That's nonsense. 

It makes no difference to have this as a chequered background or a simple grey background. The issue is that some users do not have enough experience with Illustrator to understand the asset.

[Jaydude-wb]

Adobe Stock can show the transparency grid, but it should not be included in the artwork. In essence, the buyer should be able to use / place the artwork in Ae of Id without having to edit it.

Apart from that, I have downloaded several assets, where the transparency was flattended with the grid, so there was no actual transparency anymore.

[Jaydude-wb]

I started using Illustrator 88, and consider myself as a very experienced pro user. Still, it’s a bad idea to have the transparency grid (which appeared first in Photoshop as a UI-element that represents 'nothing', alpha, 0% opaque) included as actual data. Adobe Stock should be able to show a preview with or without the grid.

[Abambo]

Apart from that, I have downloaded several assets, where the transparency was flattended with the grid, so there was no actual transparency anymore.

By @Jaydude-wb

Illustrator files or JPEG files?

You should report such graphics here. They are incorrect.

[Abambo]

I started using Illustrator 88, and consider myself as a very experienced pro user. Still, it’s a bad idea to have the transparency grid (which appeared first in Photoshop as a UI-element that represents 'nothing', alpha, 0% opaque) included as actual data. Adobe Stock should be able to show a preview with or without the grid.

By @Jaydude-wb

But it's not a trasparency grid. It just looks like one. It's a background element. And at the time those assets got submitted, it was really the only method to display the asset correctly. 

The only issue that I see with those assets is that you need Illustrator to be able to work with them. And that is nowhere mentioned.

[Abambo]

See also here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-discussions/false-transparency-image/td-p/11981047

[JUST Water]

Adobe introduced layers in 1990, and I am confident that most--if not all--of the vector graphics I've downloaded from Stock that have these annoying fake transparency graphics were created before 1990. Again, while this may not be a serious issue, it is a real one, and the issue isn't the user, it's inexperienced creators. Many creators don't seem to understand that they should not place a checkered background as an unlocked object directly into the same layer as the artwork itself!

[JUST Water]

edit: AFTER 1990. : ]