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  • Importing transparent images to AE

    Posted by Josh Pingleton on March 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Hey all. I have a image that i made in photoshop cs4 with a transparent background. I have saved it as .Gif, and .Psd. Both have transparent backgrounds In Ps.

    When i try to import them into AE, they appear with a white background?? Anyone know why this is? Or better yet how to fix it? Thanks!

    William Wood replied 11 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Josh Pingleton

    March 27, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    No sir. I have been doing photoshop for a few years. I can open the file with photoshop and it has a transparent background. I import it to AE and it makes it a white background… As soon as I import the file into AE it shows it has a trasparent background for about one second, then it turns to white. Any ideas? It must be a setting in AE.

  • Khaled Magdy

    April 17, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    I actually figured it out :D! But you have to have a transparent layer under the layer you want to use. So if you have a layer with transparency called Dog, then just add a normal empty transparent layer under it and save as PSD!

  • Khan Marks

    September 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    BIG THANKS

  • William Wood

    July 21, 2015 at 2:17 am

    Well if you export it as a png make sure its interlaced 😀 Its something people miss often

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