Chequered background in Photo Editor.

[Guest]

I notice that if I make pictures with transparent backgrounds in Photoshop,
and save them for web as png, they open in Photo Editor with a grey and
white chequered background instead of transparent. Can't see how I might
turn off this presentation of the 'transparent' area?

For me this is not a terrible problem, as I just change the file associate
to Picture and Fax Viewer, but how can I make the pictures so that they open
without the background squares, whoever I might send them too?

Regards,

S

 

[Guest]

That's how "transparent" is represented.

If you want a white background behind it, you'll have to put it there
yourself.


Don't send them with transparent background--make it white.

-michael

So why do they call it transparent?

I recall I had this problem before when trying to make icons: when it came
to putting them in say Google Earth, the 'transparent' background just made
a square round the icon.
Tinkered with it for a while, but gave up in the end.

The, 'use white' idea will be fine for sending pics that are not meant for
icons or avatars though.

Cheers,

S

 

[Guest]

Because it is rendered as transparent and lets any background show
through. In an editor/viewer, the area of transparency is often
represented as checkered, so you can distinguish it from non-transparent
colors. If there is no "background" image or color layer, that
checkered area is all you will see.

When an image with transparency is superimposed over another image
in a viewer or browser, the underlying image will show throug the
transparent areas.


Then it was not rendered as transparent in the image file format.
Usually, one must select whether transparency is to be preserved when
saving an image (to prevent problems when the image is viewed alone,
just as you describe).


Amd where you really want transparency, make sure that when you save
the file, you have selected a format and option to preserve it.

-michael

Thanks very much Michael.
Those are all helpful tips.

Cheers,
S