Wzards Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Hello. I need some help in trying to make the background of an image transparent. I recently purchased an image from a website and I was under the assumption the the background would be completely transparent upon buying it, since the background was the same pattern as something that'd be transparent (except it was black and gray instead of white and gray), but sadly it wasn't and I'm not sure how to make it so. The image in question is posted below. If anyone could help me fix this I would really appreciate it! Thanks. If there's a setting or something that will make the background transparent, but keep effect perfect, I would appreciate if someone could tell me about it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) Often in image packs you get a JPEG and a PNG, TIFF, PSD, AI, or a EPS file, all but the JPEG can contain the transparent Alpha channel. The image that you posted appears to be made translucent or semi-transparent. Why is that? Edited February 23, 2019 by HyReZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wzards Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 1 hour ago, HyReZ said: Often in image packs you get a JPEG and a PNG, TIFF, PSD, AI, or a EPS file, all but the JPEG can contain the transparent Alpha channel. The image that you posted appears to be made translucent or semi-transparent. Why is that? I'm not sure. There's no option or anything to make the background completely transparent, even though it says you can place it on a transparent background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wzards Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 7 hours ago, welshblue said: I'd go back to Shutterstock and see if there's another download option. How did you save it ? Whatever you do to it in PDN you're going to lose the integrity of the image. At least to my limited knowledge of editing There's only different options to save different resolutions, but no option to save it as completely transparent like the title says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wzards Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 12 minutes ago, welshblue said: @ @Wzards If you're downloading the .jpeg type file it doesn't support transparency ... if you've downloaded the EPS Try https://inkscape.org/ ... I've never used it but I think it opens EPS files When I download the EPS file it tries to open it with notepad and when I try to open it through inkscape it says the file type is unsupported or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) Here is a link to a PDN filetype plugin that will enable it to read PS, EPS, and AI filetypes: (The Plugin requires Ghostscript and a link to it is provided) Follow the read me instructions that comes within the zip archive containing the plugin. When opening the .eps file with PDN make sure you check the transparency box of the dialog box that will pop up before the file is opened. Edited February 24, 2019 by HyReZ inserting additional information 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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