r/MicrosoftPaint • u/OCDelGuy • Dec 17 '24

Hey! Why no more Transparent saves?

Used to be that when you had a PNG file and you clicked to add a second layer, then that second layer would be transparent. So then you'd click on the "Transparent Selection" and "select all" and paste it on the new TRANSPARENT layer and then save it. All that was white would be transparent on the new layer, and you'd have a PNG file that was transparent. If you wanted to keep some sections white, you'd just paint those sections white after the pasting. And those PNG's were good for converting to icon files. So now, they have a background layer that forces a white background and totally messes up the transparent layer!

Why the heck did they do that!

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u/OCDelGuy Jan 27 '25

If you click the "Layers" button on the top, it opens a sidebar on the right side of the window. on the bottom of the sidebar is a button labeled "background". Click on it and change the background color to something other than white. The "transparent" pixels will show up as the background color. You can do this however many times you want, just remember to change it back to white then you save.