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1. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
JJMack Jul 27, 2014 2:50 PM (in response to Dimp88)You can not save a jpeg with transparency you need to save as PNG, GIF, PSD, PSB a file format the supports transparency. Jpeg does not support transparency.
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2. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
Dimp88 Jul 27, 2014 4:43 PM (in response to JJMack)JJ Mack,
Whether I save my transparent background images as a png, gif, tiff, psd or psb the thumbnail of my transparent background images still appear on my desktop within a solid white box that has an outlined black box in it. In Photoshop versions prior to the CS, CC and 2014 series there was a way to save transparent background images that would produce a transparent background thumbnail. I wish Adobe would bring that feature back to Photoshop 2014.
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3. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
JJMack Jul 27, 2014 8:11 PM (in response to Dimp88)If your layered document has a Photoshop background layer it visibility need to be set off when saving a PNG or Gif file for Photoshop background layers do not support transparency.
Thumbnail may be a bit more complicated than you think. I do not use Lightroom, and only occasionally use the bridge. I believe Lightroom and Bridge keep thumbnails they develop for image files in their library databases and caches. Other programs do not have acces to these. RAW Files and Image files have Jpeg previews stored in then. I believe most application use these previews jpeg to create thumbnails. Jpeg format does not support transparency.
Icon on the desktop are not always thumbnails some are embedded icons in application modules other are icon in dll these may well have transparency. However image file on the desktop have generated thumbnails. However you can create a shortcut for an image png file and create a icon with a transparent background for the png file and change the shortcut's icon for the png file to the transparent ico file you created for it.
Also many Photoshop release ago an Adobe module created Thumbnails for image files in Windows File explorer and most likely system file dialog. Adobe stopped supporting that stating Microsoft changes how windows works.
Today I use FastPictureViewer Codec Package to generate image thumbnails for image files including RAW and PSD files in File Explorer and system file dialogs.
I don't use a Mac don't know what available for your Mac.

