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Thank you very much for your reply Cc4FuzzyHuggles, I tried it out and now I'm waiting to see if it'll work. Fingers crossed.

Thank you very much for your informative reply. I take it that the picture is already flattened, because when I click "Layers", it shows only 1 piece: In the picture you can also see a (small) bit of the transparent bit of the picture (which is a trading card). It's the curved middle piece which is especially evident at the right side. It's this piece that's transparent (and apparently single-layered) that I'm trying to avoid becoming black. I will definitely try your idea with the white background. I will open a new file which will be all white. I will then copy and paste my transparent file onto the white (while the transparent bits will remain transparent; however, the layer beneath will be white). But won't this be a problem as well, because when I save it as a .tiff file, won't it just turn into a single layer again (still with a transparent bit)? Or will it be 2 separate layers in 1 file? I really hope you can help. This is quite important to me, thank you. Perhaps it's because the company I have these pictures printed at uses a black background as a standard, so when I try to print a transparent area, it's not recognized and instead gets printed in the way that the previous post suggested (Cc4FuzzyHuggles's post).

It shouldn't be. I have these printed at a company here in Europe. I've also learnt that .png files aren't really meant to be printed since the .png format is mostly used for websites and everything that's online and digital.

Yes, I have saved all of my files as .png for now. I'm not sure how I can put a white layer on the bottom, because this would make the whole selected area white, wouldn't it? I need a transition between the grey bit and the white bit, not a completely grey bit and a completely white bit. Is there a way to do this without a transparent background? The print is rather small: It's trading cards (and I won't upscale or downscale anything). That's why it's essential for me that the format doesn't compromise quality since every small letter has to be clear and sharp, but at the same time I don't want to print transparent .png files since they come out all black instead of white. I hope you can help. Thank you!

Hi guys, I've previously encountered a problem when printing edited pictures that were partially transparent (created with the Gradient tool). I found that the transparent bit, when printed, came out all black instead of white (which was what I expected). How can I avoid this problem? I can't use .jpg since the quality of the pictures really deteriorates. I want to maintain a high quality when printing, but it's a necessity that the partially transparent background will print as being white. In this specific case it's a transition between grey and white, which I've created using the Gradient tool, so the left side is completely grey, the right side is completely white and the middle is a 50/50. Can anyone help? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much and have a nice day. -Ethan