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Let's take a look at transparency and why it's important in a Painter document. First of all, if we look at our canvas we see that we have a solid color which is the canvas color, but when I go ahead and create a new layer all of a sudden we have these checkerboards here. But why are we seeing those checkerboards here. That's because these checkerboards indicate transparency. I'm gonna go ahead and hide the canvas and show you that these don't print they mean nothing, their simply a visual indicator to you to let you know that something's on the actual document. So if I were to on this layer create a rectangle and with the paint bucket tool fill it in, I'm going to deselect by pressing command or control D and I'm gonna hide the canvas once again. You see that? The transparency is still there but we do have something on this layer. Now the cool thing about this is that of course I got to move this around and I still have my transparency around this object. There's another cool feature that I think is awesome and it's called preserve transparency. Now I'm gonna change the color of my brush here and I'm gonna paint without turning this on. So I'm gonna paint, I'm just painting all over the place man, look at this. So I'm painting on the actual transparent areas as well as the area that has color which is the orange rectangle. Let's go to undo that by going to edit undo and I'm going to select the preserve transparency checkbox. Now watch what happens this time when I paint. So I'm painting as hard as can and nothings happening. But when I get to the color area, look at that now I can get this really kind of interesting effect. I can create a logo for example. I can create a logo for the bangles football team. Hope they don't steal that, so that's, this is a little striped, tiger striped thing going on in that orange cube which we can say the bangles under there. So if I see that on TV, I'm coming after you guys. Now, the preserve transparency simply tells Painter that these areas that have no color or nothing in it as far as pixels is to be preserved. Do not touch it, it is pristine, only paint on areas that have pixels already on them. So you can get some very nice effects and have almost a built in frisk it on the transparent areas by simply having this turned on. So just to emphasis, the transparency is indicated by the checkerboards which do not print and preserve transparency will allow you to bypass any areas that don't have pixels that you can paint only on areas that have pixels or content on them.