Paste images with alfa

[Nomados84]

Hi, ImagePaste team. Thanks for your very helpful add-on.) Would be great to add ability pick render images from blender with alfa. For now it replace alfa with gray color.
Note:I add transparency with Render tab - Film - Transparent.
Thanks!

[b-init]

But it does already. Could you specify what OS you're on, version of ImagePaste you're using and what software you're trying to paste the image on?
It's just that some software don't support the general transparency-supporting clipboard image format so they resort to non-transparent ones...

[Nomados84]

Hi. Thanks for reply.)
OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2
ImagePaste 1.8.1
Try to paste into Photoshop 24.0.1

[Nomados84]

Hi, b-init. Thanks for your work. I made some researches and have found that when i paste to PureRef, transparency saves. But when i tried to paste the same image from PureRef to Photoshop, transparency have replaced with black color and without antialiasing.
I tried the latest release 1.9.0 and still no transparency (but now color changed from grey to black).
Would be great to fix this. Photoshop with Blender its a powerful combination. 🤞

[Nomados84]

And another one observation: when i copy an image to buffer (pressing ctrl+shift+c) it creates a RenderResult.bmp file inside .../ImagePaste dir. (that's created in my project dir). And, of course, this file does note have transparency inside. But when i paste this image back into blender (just pressing ctrl+shift+v) it creates additional slot with pasted image in blendeer and, in the same time, it creates a .png file in .../ImagePaste dir with transparency!!! So, actually, it works, but in some strange way.
Hope my researches helps you to fix this issue.)

[b-init]

Actually blender doesn't support BMP images with transparency, even though the BMP format technically can. Lot of programs rely on that for support transparency on clipboard. But most also work with PNGs so ImagePaste tries to save image as both PNG (with transparency supported) and BMP (without transparency) so it works on wide variety of software, some without transparency.

Photoshop however is very stupid and doesn't retain transparency with most general clipboard formats (BMP even with transparncy, PNG, HTML). I can't find any software that does work with photoshop but apparenty maya does (#39). I'm still trying to figure photoshop out.