Best way to send an image with a transparent background

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December 3, 2016
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A client wants some logos I designed for him on a white background. Now he would like to change the color of the background for different uses. He would like me to send him the design on a transparent background. I explained he would need a program that recognizes transparency and he said it wouldn't be a problem. What would be the best format to send him the images in? PSD, Tiff or PNG? Thanks!

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Chuck Uebele

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Chuck, if we just use the PNG option from the Save As drop down list, is that PNG-24? If you use File > Export as, you get an option to drop to 8 bit (It is off by default).

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Yea, Trevor, I haven't really looked too closely at the new export features, as I still use the old save for web.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

To add what Brad said, png-24 is better for transparent areas, with png-8 you can get white halos. often you don't have to specify 24, but you want to make sure you're not making png-8s.

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Robert WaldenAuthor

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Chuck would you tell me why png 24 rather then just png"s? Never used png-24 before.

Brad Lawryk

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Robert Walden wrote:
Chuck would you tell me why png 24 rather then just png"s? Never used png-24 before.

PNG-8 refers to palette variant, which supports only 256 colors, but is usually smaller in size. PNG-8 can be a GIF substitute. PNG-24 refers to true color variant, which supports more colors, but might be bigger. PNG-24 can be used instead of JPEG, if lossless image format is needed.

JJMack

Community Expert

If you want to save your layers PSD and PNG .

JJMack

Chuck Uebele

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I would send png-24 files.

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