Image File Transparency

[VFaul]

I am loading a bitmap image into a picturebox that resides on a panel. I would like certain pixels of the image to be transparent so that the panel's color shows through the transparent pixels. Is there any way to set pixels in a bitmap, jpeg, etc. so that they are transparent? Thanks VF

[Vivek Narayanan]

You can't make a picturebox or a panel transparent but you can make a form transparent by adjusting its opacity property

[Thomas Stockwell]

I would suggest you create a customer usercontrol that has a backcolor and then a custom drawing routine at which point you would draw the bitmap to the control. You could import the bitmap file into a Bitmap object and then use the MakeTransparent(Color c) to make a sepcifc color transparent.

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[VFaul]

MakeTransparent works great! Thanks.