Transparent 2d images

Support Materials and Textures
#1

How would I make an image like this one:

http://designertuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/splat.png

render with the whitespace transparent?? I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while, and I haven’t seen anything that worked with the new version of blender.

Thanks
Shoffing
![file:///C:/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg](file:///C:/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg)![file:///C:/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg](file:///C:/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg)

#2

Assign the image to a texture channel and map that channel to alpha. Turn on the neg button in the map to panel to inverse it (white=black) or press the alpha button until it turns yellow which inverses the alpha.
Also make sure that the material of the object you assign it to has alpha set to 0.

#3

Set your material world color to white. Then just add the black text, and render with a PNG format with RGBA enabled. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Output_Formats#Channels