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A friend of mine uploaded a lot of pictures into the products module yesterday, only to find that the reszied preview and thumbnail images developed a black background.  The original images were .png format and had a transparent background.  The produced previews and thumbnails were called .png, but were actually jpegs - obviously the transparency was lost.

Example, the "Bamboo Body Beater" at the top of the page should have a transparent background - no black at all:
http://www.teessidekungfu.co.uk/online-shop/iron-palm

(site is still in development, so there will be "strange things" happening from to time).

I am aware that an obvious immediate solution is to ftp into the server, and find the preview and thumbnail images.  I can then edit the original image and replace the offending images on the server.  

Most likely Products module is using the default image manager to make thumbs and it can't handle transparent png, sorry...

Customizing the resize method will be needed, and watermarks probably won't be able to be used.

Because the Products/CGExtensions is setup to work with adding watermarks having images with an alpha channel is extremely difficult.

Ahh, fair enough.  Cheers for the replies

I guess I am showing my ignorance again, as I thought the watermarking would be using the alpha channel and would therefore be able to cope with what I was wanting.

No matter, I will just connect and manually sort it out