toggle bg transparency options hotkey

#1

Hi again,
as the title suggests, I’d very much like to find a way to be able to toggle through the various bg transparency options, using a hotkey (think of F like the screen modes toggle or Q with quick masks).

I’ve managed creating two actions for bg white & bg transparent, but it doesn’t work immediately. One has to close a layers eye and reopen it to get it activated…

By using various luminosity values in the custom bg transparency option one could instantly see how a masked object looks on a dark, light, greay bg and continue masking apropriately.

Up to now I’ve been using the old style way of creating some layers of said values positioning them below msked object and turning them on/off, so it 'be useful instead of hunting the layer in the palette just to hit a key and instantly see what is going on.
Any ideas or is this a feature request for Adobe?

#2

Have you considered using Layer Comps?

#3

…apparently I hadn’t thought of that :slight_smile:
though I do use Layer Comps regularly and wish AI had them as well…
So, as suggested, I created 3 layers- with black, gray & white plus my working & making layers on top, made some layer comps for each and toggle through!

#4

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