Hi…I’ve been going crazy trying to figure this out, because it CAN be done, I just saw a .png image and a .gif that had transparent backgrounds.
But everytime I try to do it in Photoshop…white.
White white white.
Grr.
I’m sure it’s simple, right?
Do you want only part of the image transparent?
What you may want to look for is the opacity setting on the particular layer you are working on. It’s a tiny tiny dial on the “Layers” window, that you can drag back and forth to make the image more or less opaque.
Casserole is correct. One layer, with 30% or so opacity, saved as a png, will get you what you want.
Make sure you have the settings on your “new image” as a transparent background, rather than the default white.
I am very familiar with changing the layer opacity. The issue arises when saving the image - how do I save it as a png? Any other type of saving will insert the white (except psd, of course. But jpeg, gif… I need to be able to use it in other programs, not just photoshop, so it has to be usable and readable by other programs.)
It should be in the “file/save as” dialogue.
