Ahh I'm pulling my hair!! Photoshop PNG creates white border around the transparency?

ahendowski · Feb 2014

Is there any quick way to get rid of this white outline?! I've been googling tons and haven't found a good solution yet. It's killing my tree texturing.

ZacD · Feb 2014

I've always used the magic wand tool the select all the white and delete it, sometimes you have to mess with edge selection by growing or feathering the selection.

jStins · Feb 2014

You can also try: Layer Menu>Matting>Defringe.

monster · Feb 2014

Sometimes this helps.

ahendowski · Feb 2014

I got it, I was messing with the layers in a wrong way that it kept messing up. It was one of those tiny little things you keep glazing over. Thanks ZacD, you got me to relook in an area.

I basically shrunk the selection by one pixel, and deleted it, but on another layer I still had the original space there. So I didn't think I did and kept glazing over it hahahaha, back on track wee!

Kurt Russell Fan Club · Feb 2014

Using a targa gets rid of this.

It's the way Photoshop saves PNG files. Any transparent pixels have their colour removed and replaced with white.

Select the opaque pixels and make a new alpha channel, then set those opaque pixels to white. Save as 32 bit targa and forget that PNG even exists.

ZacD · Feb 2014

Yeah it's a photoshop limitation more than a format one. Adobe needs to fix this, and they also need to have an option to treat png transparency the same as tga alpha channels. It's an old problem people have been requesting solutions to for a long time.

cptSwing · Feb 2014

The SuperPNG plugin fixes this, if I am not mistaken.

Ahh I'm pulling my hair!! Photoshop PNG creates white border around the transparency?

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