How to make parts of an image transparent using Visual Studio 2017 Editor

Question

Hi, I am to make my own graphic , using the Visual Studio 2017 Image Editor. I would like to design a heart in the center of the image, and where there are no pixels, I want those areas transparent. The first thing I did, I created a new item inside the Resources folder, "bitmap", and named it hearts.bmp. However, after saving it from the Image Editor, I have noticed that the areas that are suppose to be transparent, are white, when I place it on a PictureBox. I am suspecting it is because the image format is a bmp, but when I add a new item from the resource folder, the only choice I have is choosing a bitmap. So, how can I make this image to include transparent areas?

Answer 1

See Image Editor and you can choose "PNG Image"

Answer 2

Before coming here, I have must of read that page 4 times, and yes it says that you can work with png files. However, when selecting add new item from the resources folder, the only option to choose from is bmp. I even tried renaming the format to png, just for the sake of it, and I get an error stating the file is an unknown format. I then tried making an image in a 3rd party image editor, saved it as a png, which did import, but then I was not able to edit it in the Visual 5tudio Image Editor. All tools except for the magnifying glass where greyed out.

Answer 3

It is from the Project, not resource folder :

Answer 4

I cannot see a programming language would make a difference, but I am using C#, and this is what I get....

Answer 5

It works for any language, but

You did not right-click on Project, you right-clicked on Solution...

Answer 6

So I found a solution. Apparently, you do need to download the C++ library. I do not know why? That only has to do with coding. Anywho here is the link

http://timwappat.info/post/2017/03/09/Visual-studio-2017-Image-Editor-Icon-Editing-resource-editor-missing

… take a look at Tim Wappat's post.