PNG's transparant sections appearing green on imported PNGS.

[REO_REbOrn]

Hello!


I am using Corel Paintshop pro 2020 edition and i'm importing PNG files which I purchased from Humble Bundle. They appear transparent in my file explorer but once they're in PS Pro they appear Green. I have opened the files in GIMP and a few other photo editors and the backgrounds stay transparent. Is there anything i can do to make it transparent in PS?
I have tried using the eraser tool (With edge finder) finding only the green to delete but it looks awful.
Any advice? Thanks

I have attached the image itself and a screenshot of it inside of PS.

[LeviFiction]

These are probably a special version of PNG transparency that PSP doesn't directly support. Essentially it's a paletted image with a full 256 color palette transparency. In PSP normally if a PNG (or GIF) uses single-color transparency, you'd go to Image -> Palette -> View Palette Transparency.

To see it's effects.

And that does technically work, but it only uses the first value to define the transparent color and it won't work as expected. I had a script a while back that addressed this that I made for a user named flagpole, but I'm having trouble finding it. Give me a couple hours I'm sure I'll be able to find it...or recreate it whichever comes first.

[LeviFiction]

Here is the script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... sp=sharing

Unzip that into your Scripts-Trusted folder for PSP (Usually stored at C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\2020\Scripts-Trusted )

Open your script toolbar if it isn't already open (View -> Toolbars -> Script)

Open the image you want to run the script on

Select "Restore8-bit-Transparency" from the script list

Run the script

Once it's done it should look correct.

You can then save this file as a regular PNG with full transparency, the image will be larger in size but it'll work perfectly in PSP.

[REO_REbOrn]

Here is the script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... sp=sharing

Unzip that into your Scripts-Trusted folder for PSP (Usually stored at C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\2020\Scripts-Trusted )

Open your script toolbar if it isn't already open (View -> Toolbars -> Script)

Open the image you want to run the script on

Select "Restore8-bit-Transparency" from the script list

Run the script

Once it's done it should look correct.

You can then save this file as a regular PNG with full transparency, the image will be larger in size but it'll work perfectly in PSP.

Wow, thank you so much!! Worked a treat! Ty for your help! Owe you one

[JoeB]

@LeviFiction,

Perhaps you might want to post that script in the Scripting sub-forum starting with a link back to this thread for people to find out what the purpose of the script is and the issue that might require use of the script. Just a thought....

[LeviFiction]

@REO_REbOrn - One quick question if you're still around to see this. Are you permitted to share that file? Since you got it from Humble Bundle it was paid for but are you free to share it? If not I'd edit your original post to delete it from the forum. Wouldn't want you to be in trouble with the authors of the image.

@JoeB - I was going to but my contrary nature now wants me to never do so. xD

[JoeB]

Ahhh, contrairians! One thing abut them I've found is that they are usually nicer and more cooperative in real life than they pretend to be.