Transparency Renders as Black in Avatar

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  mosasaur · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 10:05 pm

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  I have a non-rectangular Avatar. I wanted it to have an alpha channel/transparency, but when I upload it (gif or png) the transparent parts are black instead of transparent. See my avatar for an example. Everything outside of the red circle should be transparent.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 10:51 pm

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  I found the solution to your problem in the forum search box by typing in “avatar trsanparency”. When you upload your avatar here, wordpress automatically resizes it. when it does so, it loses any transparency. you’ll have to add a white background to your avatar. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=9053&page&replies=7#post-61882
  Happy blogging :)

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  drmike · Member · Mar 23, 2007 at 12:01 pm

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  I wonder if this is the cause of all the black avatars? Hmm…

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  jeremyvisser · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 11:42 am

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  This is damn annoying. It really isn’t hard to get alpha blending properly.

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  anarkidiri · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 8:57 pm

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  there must be something wrong. I even changed my avatar for 24 times :(
  what’s wrong today? Every images turn to black.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 9:05 pm

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  There are avatar problems and you can see this by looking down the forum threads like this one https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=15848

  Some bases worth covering are:
  (1) Be sure your image one of these file types – jpg, jpeg, png, gif (Note that bmp’s cannot be uploaded due to size).
  (2) Do not use anything in the file name but letters and numbers. Use no spaces, no dashes, no underscores, or any type of special character or punctuation, except for the dot between the file name and the extension. Also make sure that the file name has an extension.
  (3) Choose an image that does not have any transparency in it.
  (4) Pre-sized the image to be 128 pixels x 128 pixels square prior to trying to upload it.

  Staff do monitor these forum threads so please make sure you have posted a link to your blog or have linked your username to your blog so staff can locate your blog and help you.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 9:38 pm

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  @tt
  Where have I read that before? :-)

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  anarkidiri · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 9:39 pm

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  JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF…. I’ve try all of these file types. I also never use anything in the file name but letters and numbers. No spaces, no dashes, and absolutely no underscores. With an extension at the end of the name, of course. I did resize and scale my images to 128 * 128 pixels, coz I dont like to crop on dashboard.

  So, there’s avatar problems? Well… :|
  But anyway, timethief, thanks for the update. I’ll try it again.
  Thank you :)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 10:03 pm

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  @alexcobain
  Thumbs up! You have done all the correct things. If this problem persists tomorrow then during support hours you could send in a support request http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

  @thesacredpath
  I guess this is our first jointly created copy and paste … lol. :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 18, 2007 at 10:12 pm

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  @tt
  Yes it is. I’ve started mine.