Suggestion- custom background to show transparent pixels

[usedHONDA]

Normally, I just make a new layer, send it to the bottom, and fill it with a certain color to see how my alpha-channel-dependent image looks with a white, gray, black, or green background (because a checker board doesn't cut it). But unfortunately, sometimes I have 5 layers on blend modes and when I make my background layer white or black, it disappears or does something funky to it. My suggestion is to add a new section in a menu like "Choose Defaults" that allows you to change from the standard checker board to the color or tiling pattern you want. Just an idea.

[Ash]

Good idea

[Down]

Nice suggestion. This would help me, a lot.

[Bob]

I think it adds more bugs than solves issues.

[usedHONDA]

The thing is that sometimes you need to edit an image when at the same time, you need a certain background to either see it better or see how it would look with the certain background, but without the image blending modes ruin it. For instance, I was working on a iPod today (if you didn't see the 3 pages it was on in the Pictorium) and I needed to see how my black iPod looked on the white background, and vice versa. But with bending modes set on almost every layer, half of the image disappeared. So I had to flatten the image, set the background, take a look, undo the flattening, make a curve and a transparency adjustment, flatten, look, undo, do another modification, flatten, look, undo adjustment, flatten....... it got kinda annoying (and my CPU/500mb RAM chips didn't find it enjoyable, either).

[Yata]

Honda, rest assure we all saw your iPod.

And I highly support this. It can get very frustrating, as you just described.

[jake2k]

i think it's a nice idea, that way i could make my pink background a default on startup lol