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Photoshop Elements and Transparency

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I'm trying to cut the background out of an image for use in Adobe Photoshop Elements, but it doesn't seem to want to do this, it always saves as white whenver I try to do anything with it. So, does anyone know the solution to this or another common (i.e. not insanely expensive) program that can fix this?
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First question: what format are you saving the pic as?
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I'm using JPG. I have the option of GIF and PNG as well.
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JPEG doesn't support transparency: GIF and PNG do, though.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:JPEG doesn't support transparency: GIF and PNG do, though.
And you'll want to use 32-bit PNGs, because GIF transparency sucks.

Another thing, I don't think you can use layer masking in Elements.
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Yeah, I figured that out. I'm just making a 50*50 button, so I don't think quality will be a probably. Thanks for the help anyways.
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