I freaked out when it happened to me because I use transparent PNG images all the time and need them to be transparent. However, if you don’t have an image with a transparent background, it’s pretty easy to create one using the various image editing applications available. That is often known as a transparent background. One or the other setting should fix the problem for you. Sometimes, you may decide to use an image on your web page without a background color. In PSP8, I now have to UNcheck "Load and save transparency from/to alpha channel" and in X2 I have to check "Load and save transparency from/to layer transparency" instead of alpha channel.
A few months ago I did something in PSP that caused the setting to need to be the opposite of what it should be and it affected all of my versions of PSP after PSP7.
Select an image that you want to have a background.
Read this article to learn how to do that with PNGs. when you make graphics, you dont want the background showing.or at the very least, you want part of the image to be transparent. If you find that it's already set to that option and they're still not transparent, you may need to check "Load and save transparency from/to layer transparency" instead. Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. In that dialog box, check "Load and save transparency from/to alpha channel".
What I normally do, is to run the Mask tool, and select the background color, and mask it out, then re-save the image part that I want with transparent options. At least that's the case with Firefox and Internet Explorer on Windows XP.Īlso, in PSP go to File > File Format Preferences > PNG tab. I've noticed this a lot, when working with PNG's that I've downloaded from internet.
You need to save the file to your hard drive and open it from PSP. information that is cannot be applied directly to important to the preceding the background. As far as I know, you can't just right-click and copy a transparent PNG image directly from the browser into PSP and retain the transparency. A note containing The Background Eraser tool.