Photoshop Transparency - Saving

I must be having a brain meltdown because I could have sworn that I have done this in the past but I can't seem to do it anymore.

I have an image that I have created with transparency. I turn off the background, and indicate "Preserve Transparency". I then go to "Save to Web As" and select PNG24 with Transparency. Then Save.

When I go and view the file, the transparency is gone and a matte has been added. Even when No Matte was indicated during saving process.

Can someone tell me how I can save my transparencies in images coming from Photoshop?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Tim

Im not sure, but try saving it as a gif. that seems to work for me

You're right that would and has worked in the past. However, I am trying to create images that I want to use for special effects in Flash and PNG is the preferred format for import into Flash.

Thanks for your thoughts though.

Tim

Hi,

Preserve transparency is not for saving transparent images on web. Preserve transparency is the equivalnet of lock transparency pixels in Ps 6 and 7. Try to make a file with transparent background from the begining. Have you select transparency from the save for web menu? Mate is only aplied when you don't have this option checked.

Adrian.

Hmm... Save for web. PNG-24. Transparency is checked. It should work as long as your background has been removed.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps you are witnessing a problem with a layer using a blending mode that turns a different color when there is no background underneath it.

When I do any work for exporting. All layer blending modes need to be set to "normal". If you have a special effect that required a different blending mode to be used, be sure to flatten the layers that used the other blending modes together and mask off/remove whatever is necessary.

Thats the only thing I can think of. You're doing everything right from my perspective.

I thought you could only save a transparent image as a gif.