Making Backgrounds Transparent

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How do you make the background of an object you are creating transparent. I always get a white or colored background and would like just the object?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
For what program do you want to make the background transparent? Windowblinds for example uses the "magic pink" (255/0/255) as a background colour, while other programs like OD use the native transparency of PNG files.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I downloaded a picture of a "microphone" from the Net. The background is white. When I use it as an object in DesktopX, I would like it to show just as a microphone. I have graphics programs if necessary. What do I do?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You can either erase the back ground, or hand select the the image you want and transfer it to a new tranparent back ground either way it will probablely take a little time. and you might want to zoom in by at least 5x
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's exactly what I've been attempting to do. First I ask DesktopX to create a new object and I get the blue circular object. Then I go to "States" and "Image" and select my picture which I created with a transparent background and when I choose it, it appears with a white background?#@ I'm puzzled. I would like to have a picture of a mike to launch my microphone program, but I can't find any objects of microphones, so I thought it would be easy to create one.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
did you save it as a png. file ??
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dont know about photo shop but in paint shop when saving a ping file you need to make shure you set the options to preserve the transparency of the image or it will will in in with white background so check if you program has this funtion