Render thumbnails for .PNG files on gray

[pbldesign]

I have a number of Photoshop overlay files that are in .PNG format with transparency. I want to use Lightroom CC to manage these, however Lightroom renders transparent areas as white in its thumbnails. This is a problem for images with white information (common for watermark signatures, snow, stars, etc.). Lightroom renders white on white and the thumbnails are useless. Is there any way to have Lightroom render transparent areas as gray?  That way, dark and light information could be seen in the thumbnails.

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi pbldesign,

I have tried testing this issue at our and I am unable to change the transparent areas in some other colour. Let me check some more information and get back to you on this issue.

Regards,

Mohit

[pbldesign]

Mohit,

Thank you for checking into this. It would be extremely helpful.

For now, I am using a workaround to convert the .PNG files with transparency to multi-layer .PSD files with gray or black background layer in Photoshop, and then importing the .PSD into Lightrooom.  Using Actions, I can streamline this somewhat (but it's still cumbersome).  Then when I want to use the overlay, I can open the file in Photoshop and copy the transparent image layer to the other document where I want to place it.

Thanks again for your efforts!

Peter

[Mohit Goyal · Accepted solution]

Hi pbldesign,

I checked with the team and they said that there's no way to change the background colour for .png images in Lightroom Classic Or CC version. You may raise a feature request for the same.

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Regards,

Mohit

[pbldesign]

Mohit,

I have made a Feature Request using the link you provided.

I appreciate your responsiveness.

Best,

Peter

[Mohit Goyal]

Great,

Your Welcome.

Regards,

Mohit