Backgrounds when removing alpha channel

[mtg45]

When you convert PNG with alpha channel to JPG without it, the final JPG has fragments that would otherwise be hidden by the alpha channel.

I'd like to ask for an action, or setting to configure backgrounds for images that originally had alpha channel.

Or, tell me how to do that in the current 1.71, in a case I missed it somehow

[XnTriq]

Welcome to the forum, mtg45 (-:

Adding an extra action to change the color depth to truecolor before converting 32-bit PNGs to JPEG should do the trick.

[mtg45]

Hm.., yes, the artifacts are now gone, but it doesn't allow me to change the background. It'll always be white.

But, good enough for most of the cases I guess. Thank you

Edit: I have to add though that this is in no way intuitive, and unless told I wouldn't be able to figure this out. Specific action that handles background behavior for alpha channel removal would be amazing.

[XnTriq]

IMO, this feature should be added to all versions of XnView (including XnConvert and NConvert).

• TIFF, 2 layers, transparent --> JPEG, blue
• GIF to JPG using rflag decr fails
• transparency convertion

I am trying to convert PNGs with transparency to JPG, but the transparency is always black. I woudl like ti to be white. I have tried the -transpcolor option but I didn't do anything.

If it possible to set the transparency color converting to JPG?
Is this syntax correct?

... -out jpeg -transpcolor 255 255 255 -keepcspace -q 100 ...

You can't change the transparency color when saving in jpeg

• Converting png/ico to jpeg & background color
• White background when converting PNG to JPG with nconvert?
• Transparency color when converting ICO -> PNG
• Identifying transparency in non-supported formats
• Replace transparent background to white
• PNG transparency white

[Danny]

Bump.

It would be really helpful to somehow be able to select which color the transparency will have, if the output format doesn't support transparency (JPG, ...). Otherwise, you'd have to do it in two passes (first convert to lossless format without transparency, then convert to JPG by replacing BG color), which sucks.

It could even be a program-wide setting like the preview background color.