Question: I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?

And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.

Picture for reference:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png)

Answer: 
As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..

1) Take a certain size of file(file A) 

2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)

3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg. 

4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.

5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).

6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.

7) Now you will have a file like this.
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)

That's it... Good luck !
You can take a screen shot and then open it as image. It's simple and you don't have to worry about [white background](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSWDx5fcms) .