# Transparency Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-issue/9044>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 3, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-issue/9044 "2002-12-03T19:00:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![goldmonkee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@goldmonkee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/goldmonkee)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-issue/9044/1 "2002-12-03T19:00:22Z")

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![](http://www.citznet.com/~silver/monkee/trans.png)

You can plainly see the “dot” effect, where the image is supposed to be transparent. The only way I’ve found to get rid of it is to have a white background…but I don’t want a white background 😏

Anybody have a solution or at least a reason why it’s doing this?

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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 3, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-issue/9044/2 "2002-12-03T23:19:13Z")

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what format did you save your image as? Try saving it as png.