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- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-09-07 09:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
French term
United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
transparence (here)
Choisir [XXX] pour la création de tableaux photo modernes, c’est choisir la qualité et la transparence.
Thank you.
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Tony M
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Melanie Kathan
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AllegroTrans
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Adrian MM.
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Sep 3, 2019 13:23: Rob Grayson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Sep 7, 2019 10:16: Tony M Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (3): GILLES MEUNIER, Yvonne Gallagher, Rob Grayson
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transparency
I don't think your suggested wording would work; apart from being clunky, it also sounds really odd, because while you might well want what you purchase to be high quality, the element of transparencey really lies in your transaction with the supplier.
I think you are really going to have to copy-write this properly in EN and get right away from the orignal FR wording.
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philgoddard
: I agree about rewriting it - I'm not sure my translation would include the word "transparency".
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Thanks, Phil!
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Eliza Hall
: Yes, we say this in EN to mean that everything relating to pricing is made clear to the customer, nothing's hidden. And I agree that OP's proposed translation (in discussion) is not on point.
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Thanks, Eliza!
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Michele Fauble
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Merci, Michele !
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Thanks, Yvonne!
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David Sirett
: Especially as the next sentence explains what they mean: "Nous avons décidé de ne rien vous cacher..."
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Thanks, David! My point exactly.
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Julie Barber
: Yes it refers to business transparency not the actual products. ie XX operates with transparency
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Thanks, Julie!
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Kevin Oheix
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Merci, Kevin !
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transparency
I think it's helpful to consider the idea that the adjectives refer to the company and not the product. Thus for 'transparence,' I think transparency is actually fine. 'Honesty' sounds a bit too personal, but it's fairly common to talk about 'transparency' in a business.
As for the rest of the sentence, I often come across this turn of phrase ("choisir x, c'est choisir y") in my translations, and I'd suggest something like-
"By choosing (XXX) to create...you are choosing to work with a company that emphasizes quality and transparency."
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GILLES MEUNIER
: what else ?
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Thanks, GILOU
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Eliza Hall
: Yes, I agree, this is about the business itself (its processes, its vendors if any -- the way it does business).
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Thanks, Eliza!
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Michele Fauble
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Thanks, Michele!
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Yvonne Gallagher
: (and I like your suggestion BTW)
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Thank you, Yvonne!
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David Sirett
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Thanks, David!
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Kevin Oheix
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
translucence
This paper considers the claim that perceptual experience is “transparent”, in the sense that nothing other than the apparent public objects of perception.
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philgoddard
: It's about openness as to where the product comes from.
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That's a very categoric and one-sided interpretation.
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Rob Grayson
: Nothing to do with this IMO // Irrespective of why the answer asked the question, your proposed answer is wrong, IMO
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The asker wouldn't have asked the question if a literal translation - or rather transliteration -were that suitable.//The question, again, does not lend itself to a non-native French right or categorically wrong answer.
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Sensible solutions
Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois)
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
clarity
My answer is based on the supposition that this is about phographic print quality. A "transparent" print doesn't work for me and I think the best way to render this in English is "clarity"
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Tony M
: But there is nothing here to suggest it is talking about the physical photo itself. / But one would hardly single out just ONE characterstic like this, and still less likely the 'transparency'. 'Clarity' in image processing is not 'transparence' in FR.
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I don't think we can conclusively say that since the word is alongside "quality""
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Discussion
La transparence en photographie - Lycée des Métiers Orthez
https://lycee-metiers-orthez.fr › actualites › la-transparen...
4 Apr 2017 - Une sélection de travaux réalisés par les élèves de la classe de 2nd photo autour de la transparence. Le but était de dessiner les contours de ...
Unlike a certain well-know furniture retailer, who advertises their leather sofas made from "Italian buffalo hide" — but carefully avoids mentioning that the buffalo hide is sent to China for the furniture to be actually made! Transparent: not!
Charte Qualité et Transparence
"Je suis transparent avec mon client et je favorise sa bonne connaissance de mes prestations et de mon tarif"
http://www.sefaireaider.com/charte-qualite-transparence.html
Transparence
"Qualité d'une institution qui informe complètement sur son fonctionnement, ses pratiques"
https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/transparence
A bit wordy?
"Choosing [XXX] to create your contemporary wall-mounted photo prints means that you have decided to buy a product of quality and ???????"
i.e. "to purchase a transparent product"" obviously sounds a little odd for the context.