# Background Transparency help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-transparency-help/9747>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 17, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-transparency-help/9747 "2002-12-17T20:04:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![FirstClassJO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FirstClassJO](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FirstClassJO)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-transparency-help/9747/1 "2002-12-17T20:04:40Z")

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Hi,

I’m looking to use some jpeg’s as characters in my flash movie, but I don’t want the original background to be shown, I just want to make it transparent so it looks like the picture is “in the movie” if that makes sense.

Is there any way to do that? I use photoshop, so if I can do it in that program, please let me know. 🙂

Thank you in advance.  
Jeff

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-transparency-help/9747/2 "2002-12-17T20:07:40Z")

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Just hide the background inside photoshop, and save as a png 🙂

inside flash, open the library and go to the properties of yer png (after importing), and make sure it’s set to lossless/png, and not jpg quality…

That’ll do it 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/background-transparency-help/9747/3 "2002-12-17T22:35:48Z")

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WOOHOOO! THANKS!