# Importing transparency in .gif

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 20, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014 "2003-03-20T07:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unflux](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/unflux/32/7318_2.png) [@Unflux](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Unflux)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/1 "2003-03-20T07:17:00Z")

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can it be done with MX? I can’t find an answer myself, and  
nothing I’ve tried has worked…

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/2 "2003-03-20T07:22:10Z")

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Howdy…

I always use PNG file for the transparency, but GIF should work just fine…

Got a sample GIF file that you can upload???

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/3 "2003-03-20T07:28:56Z")

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Yes, if the gif is tranparent before you import, it should show up transparent.

Note: If it doesn’t look that way on the stage, try testing your movie and see how it looks then.

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/4 "2003-03-20T07:36:54Z")

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\<a href=“[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/transparent\_bitmaps.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/transparent_bitmaps.htm)” target=“blank”\>transparency support in flash\</a\> 😉

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/5 "2003-03-20T09:08:21Z")

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yeah i never knew that… if u make somethign have a TP background and u save it as jpg, and import to flash . it doenst work, u must save it as gif or something 😕

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/6 "2003-03-20T09:10:08Z")

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Yup… GIF or PNG with proper transparency setting… 😉

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/7 "2003-03-20T09:11:31Z")

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yup 😛 😉

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/8 "2003-03-20T15:40:02Z")

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Yeah, jpgs don’t support transparency, you can’t even save a jpg with transparency.

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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:** [March 20, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-transparency-in-gif/16014/9 "2003-03-20T21:49:57Z")

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ok it’s just the bounding box of the image on the stage that  
gives it the appearance of not being transparent. whew!

thx. 🙂