Transparent background color

[fab4]

Newbie question, Is it possible to change the color of transparent background from the checkered grey to another color? When working with white fonts its difficult to see. Oh and another thing, how to select all the text on a background to change its color?

[Madame]

Hi.

You can use the rectangle tool to fill the background with colour. 

 

To change the colour of the text (or an object) you can change to the move tool and use the colour sliders or wheel to choose a colour.

The text (or object) layer has to be selected.  

Look in the layers panel, the selected layer is blue.. (or any other colour if you have changed your OS preferences).

[fab4]

Thank you Madame! As usual I was trying to make it ,ore complicated than need be.

[Madame]

Glad to help! I've been there.. ;)