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When I copy an image with a transparent background into an image editing program like Photoshop, I get a black background

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I'm wondering if there's a way to preserve transparency, or even change the color of the background to white.

I often need to get reference pictures for my artwork, and it is a pain to have to save every image and the black background often makes it difficult to see the image, especially when the image has only black pixels.

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I'm wondering if there's a way to preserve transparency, or even change the color of the background to white. I often need to get reference pictures for my artwork, and it is a pain to have to save every image and the black background often makes it difficult to see the image, especially when the image has only black pixels. Help?

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You can try to drag the image in a Photoshop window instead.
If that still doesn't work then you need to save the image and open it in Photoshop.

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Just saw cor-el's solution to this issue and tried the save as and no black background which worked Thank you very much x