I'd like to produce a graphic for printing on black, or just printing without a square border. I can't seem to save my (apparently) transparent layer without it having a white background . . . I'm able to erase the picture background using the magic wand, etc., within my Paint.net program, but then I try to save as png file. . . no success for transparency. Any suggestions?

try a different software...gimp is free...save it in your software open it in gimp remove the background and save it from there without the background

In Paint.net you need to make sure you background color is a solid color, click on the transparency tool, hold down the shift key and click on the color you want removed with the transparency tool the hit the delete button. You may have to wait a few seconds, but you should then see a transparent background.

Hope this helps.

Bobbi

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Originally posted by fstasu53:
In Paint.net you need to make sure you background color is a solid color, click on the transparency tool, hold down the shift key and click on the color you want removed with the transparency tool the hit the delete button. You may have to wait a few seconds, but you should then see a transparent background.

Hope this helps.

Bobbi

Thanks Bobbi! But I don't seem to have a "transparency tool" in the tools window. There's a transparency adjustment in the colors window . . . I've been playing around with it but to no avail. I'll keep trying!

I'll be interested to know if that succeeds in still being transparent after uploading to CP. That method of selecting a color to treat as transparent is called "indexed transparency", so I would expect a PNG-8 to be created. A PNG-8 file will be treated as non-transparent on CP. Transparency on CP has to be alpha transparency (PNG-24 or PNG-32)

I just played around (again!) with my Paint.net program. Your pointers, Bobbi, helped me alot. I imported my image and created another layer for a solid color background. I next investigated the "layer properties", and there (yes!) I realized I could adjust the opacity to transparent. I saved it as a PNG file and tested in CP products on a black T-shirt and IT WORKED!!

Also, in investigating my image properties it says it has a bit depth of 32 - is that what PNG-32 means Tanith? Thanks all!

Glad to see you worked out your problem.

Doing it the way I described never has changed the depth of my PNG, don't understand why it would.

Bobbi