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1. Re: Photoshop CS5 transparency preview seems very inaccurate
c.pfaffenbichler Nov 16, 2010 8:07 AM (in response to 3ABNPublishing)I can’t speak for Adobe naturally, but I think there may be a reasonable rationale.
If one were to put a print on some transparent material on a white sheet of paper it would probably appear quite different from being held up against a random illuminated background – and the Transparency Grid might be an attempt to reflect that.
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2. Re: Photoshop CS5 transparency preview seems very inaccurate
3ABNPublishing Nov 16, 2010 12:18 PM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)That's an interesting thought. However, I've printed on transparencies before, and I don't see that connection. I think that for most people using Photoshop, images with transparency are not being printed on transparencies (if you've ever done it, you know that for all practical intents white = transparent when printing on transparent media; the output is indeed different, even for completely opaque colors, than when printing on traditional paper media, but I cannot imagine that the Photoshop developers were aiming at that when coding it, and if they were they still did a bad job). Instead most transparency users, I reckon, are people like me who are either making partially transparent images for print layouts (objects to import into a page spread), or else doing web graphics with transparency. Both of these options ... which I will guess amount to something like 99% of the use of transparency in Photoshop ... would benefit from a more accurate preview ... because the end result that one gets when you put the object in a page spread or combine it with elements in a web page is like what you see with my white background version or my simulated mockup of how transparency "should" look, and not like what Photoshop shows you.




