3 Replies Latest reply: Jul 27, 2014 8:11 PM by JJMack RSS

    How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?

    Dimp88 Community Member

      In old versions of Photoshop there was a feature that made thumbnail images have a transparent background.  I'm a CC member using Photoshop 2014 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.4 and every thumbnail of a transparent background image I've created in Photoshop 2014 appears on my desktop with a solid white box background that has a thin black outlined box inside of it.  How do I save the transparent background images I've created in Photoshop 2014 so they will appear on my desktop as thumbnails with a transparent background?   I'd like to continue to be able to replace the default background-less folder icon that that appears on files with transparent background thumbnails to customize my files as I use to do with older versions of Photoshop.

        • 1. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
          JJMack Community Member

          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.

          • 2. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
            Dimp88 Community Member

            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.

            • 3. Re: How to save transparent background images to have transparent background thumbnails with Photoshop 2014?
              JJMack Community Member

              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.