[Re-using .png files]

Thank you everyone for your feedback and your help. I found some really helpful tutorials on you tube for this subject and I am now happily creating.

[Re-using .png files]

first.. i just tried it and it worked fine, bringing up a transparent image-- which mean you see the checkerboard background....are you sure you deleted the background image? or did you just set the background layers vissiblity to off? hitting the red X while the background layer is highlighted will delete it, unchecking the little box just renders it unseen, but its still there

now i must ask, what purpose is there to saving such a thing? if i want to start with a transparent image, i simply add a layer and delete the background, why bother with loading a transparent .png?

Thanks for your reply, yes, I deleted the background and it worked on a couple of pictures I was working on. But when I closed paint.net and then went back to it, the same .png came up with the chequered background. At the moment I am experimenting to find my way round paint.net. I have had very little experience with this kind of programme and want to learn more about it. As for the purpose of saving, being new to this I find it time consuming trying to delete the background with the magic wand and eraser, because I am not that good at it, so I thought I would save my transperancies for further use. Thanks again for your response. I will keep experimenting.

[Re-using .png files]

Hi, I am new to paint.net and I have very limited knowledge of using this programme and the different methods. However I managed to delete a background and save it as a .png file, by using the tutorials, then I used it in a picture, however, the next time I wanted to use the same .png it didn't work as a transparent, can someone explain why please?

[Highlight (now in Red ochre plugin pack)]

I love it, thank you for sharing