How to make an icon with transparent background?

[Bryan O'Neal]

Ok - so are you having trouble with it while saving / converting or
before? Do you see the chekerboard pattern behind the image?
Here is a quick youtube on the basics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5vdKuwTp0  You can ignore the first
2:50 of the video


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
> How can I create an icon with a transparent background?
>
> I've been able to make the image as a .gif with a transparent background,
> but when I open it with gimp and try to save it as a png, the background
> changes from transparent to white.  Someone said it has to have an "Alpha
> channel with no background" but how is that done?
>
>
>
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