Blend transparent light beam

[fionaw23]

Hello, I have the following transparent light beam image and I'm trying to blend into another image but the transparent background is still visable. How do I edit to only see the light beam? I've tried all blending modes!

[davescm]

Did you download it in jpeg format? If so, jpeg does not support transparency - so the checkerboard is built into the image. Check if a PNG, TIFF or PSD download is available

Dave

[fionaw23]

Hi dave I got it from adobe stock so not aware what format it is. Shall I save as one of the above? 

[Semaphoric]

You can tell the format by the extension of the file name. If the checkerboard is actually part of the image (rather than the background), saving it as a different format will not change the image.

[davescm]

As Semaphoric says, you have to download it in one of those formats. Jpeg does not support transparency and changing a jpeg to another format later does not bring that transparency back. It looks like you might have downloaded the preview image rather than the stock file.

Dave

[fionaw23]

I've licensed the image, that's just a screenshot I took to put on here. Do I search for a light beam without a solid background then?

What's the best way to get something like this onto my image?

[Guest]

Hi

What you're trying to download is a vector illustration with an .ai extension which is for Adobe Illustrator

[fionaw23]

That's gone straight over my head! Haha

I just want a light beam, can you suggest anything?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

When you purchase the image you should have access to a version without the »Adobe Stock« logo embedded. 

Please post a screenshot of that. 

[fionaw23]

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What is the image’s file format? 

If you drag it into another image what does it look like? 

If you set its Blend Mode to Screen does anything change? 

[fionaw23]

Thanks everyone for your help, I created my own light in the end and I'm happy with it.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

If you want to create a »lightbeam« from scratch a Noise Gradient Layer combined with some white and black Gradient Layers and the converted to a Smart Object with the Filter Polar Coordinates applied would be an option.