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When I import a PNG image in MOHO, there is a large rectangular white box around it! I have made the background transparent, and in "windows picture and fax viewer", the background is transparent! Yet when I import it into Moho, there is still a large white box!

first, never trust in windows.
second, try to give the transparency to the image with another software.*
or third, try to give the transparency again with the same software.




*recommended

What other software could I use? I used "Irfanview" to make it transparent. Thanks for the help!

Any chance you could upload a sample PNG somewhere that exhibits the problem?

Regards, Myles.

Im not sure how to upload a picture...

You'll need to upload it to a web site.

If you don't have your own site, you can use a free service such as http://imageshack.us/

Regards, Myles.

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That image isn't transparent. Transparency wasn't even turned on in the PNG.

Here is your image with transparency:

Thanks for all your help, but I have some questions.
1) How did you find if the image had transparacy turned on or off?
2) What program did you use to make transparacy?

Again, thanks for all the help.

i use corel photopaint 11. wich is very similar to photoshop and wich comes inside corel draw.

there you have two option of transparency: using a mask or selecting a color.

but must be freeware that make the same thing, i don't know wich, but you can ask in "other software" section.

selgin wrote:but you can ask in "other software" section.

or maybe rasheed could help you. he always does.

I use The Gimp, an open source program (and freeware) for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. If you're looking for a Windows installer, see here.

In The Gimp, I used the Layer menu and saw that "Add Transparency" was not greyed out, which means the image didn't have an alpha channel. After I added transparency to the layer, I selected all white pixels ("select regions by color" tool) and cleared the selected region. And presto, a transparent background.

If you have Photoshop on your system, you can do the same in a somewhat different way (I guess, I don't have Photoshop on my system).

Photoshop export of PNG files with transparent effects is very easy. All you need to do is "export for web", and make sure that you have chosen 24bit PNG with transparency.

I tried installing Gimp, but it froze on the clock thing when it got to "fonts"....
Edit:it worked after a few tries!
Thanks everybody!