Transparent images for use in blender

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Grasp that nettle

In this tutorial I show you how to make a transparent texture for any software that need a image with transparencies. I personally use transparent textures for text on YouTube texture on blender and could also be used on flier’s or banner the choice is endless.
1.this is best done on a cloudy day as there are no shadows to spoil your texture.
2.upload you images from your camera or phone never loose an image again
3. I personally do this through my Google drive
4 this means the image is not lost by accident
5. Load the image from drive to your computer
6 use the image editor of your choice
7 follow my tutorial this tutorial could be adapted to the software of your choice transparent images for use on banners news article school flyers banners banner on video animation effects special effects road signs mosaic clip art image on image Transparency is possible in a number of graphics file formats.

The term “transparency” is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is “full transparency” i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there would be nothing to see. More complex is “partial transparency” or “translucency” where the effect is achieved that a graphic is partially transparent in the same way as colored glass. Since ultimately a printed page or computer or television screen can only be one color at a point, partial transparency is always simulated at some level by mixing colors. There are many different ways to mix colors, so in some cases transparency is ambiguous. In addition, transparency is often an “extra” for a graphics format, and some graphics programs will ignore the transparency.  Animated PNG (APNG) 8-bit transparency Raster file formats that support transparency include GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and JPEG 2000, through either a transparent color or an alpha channel. Most vector formats implicitly support transparency because they simply avoid putting any objects at a given point. This includes EPS and WMF. For vector graphics this may not strictly be seen as transparency, but it requires much of the same careful programming as transparency in raster formats. More complex vector formats may allow transparency combinations between the elements within the graphic, as well as that above. This includes SVG and PDF. A suitable raster graphics editor shows transparency by a special pattern, e.g. a checkerboard pattern. Contents Transparent pixelsEdit This image has binary transparency (some pixels fully transparent, other pixels fully opaque). It can be transparent against any background because it is monochrome. One color entry in a single GIF or PNG image’s palette can be defined as “transparent” rather than an actual color. This means that when the decoder encounters a pixel with this value, it is rendered in the background color of the part of the screen where the image is placed, also if this varies pixel-by-pixel as in the case of a background image. Applications include: an image that is not rectangular can be filled to the required rectangle using transparent surroundings; the image can even have holes (e.g. be ring-shaped)in a run of text, a special symbol for which an image is used because it is not available in the character set, can be given a transparent background, resulting in a matching background. The transparent color should be chosen carefully, to avoid items that just happen to be the same color vanishing. Even this limited form of transparency has patchy implementation, though most popular web browsers are capable of displaying transparent GIF images. This support often does not extend to printing, especially to printing devices (such as PostScript) which do not include support for transparency in the device or driver. Outside the world of web browsers, support is fairly hit-or-miss for transparent GIF files.