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Having trouble getting transparent backgrounds in ChatGPT images

OpenAI Developer Community May 1, 2026
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I’ve been having a really hard time getting ChatGPT to generate images with a real transparent background I’ve tried a lot of different prompt variations already. I’ve asked for a real alpha channel, asked for a transparent PNG, asked it to check whether the file actually has transparency before giving it to me, and tried a bunch of other wording too. Most of the time it still doesn’t work The weird part is that every now and then it gives me a transparent background even when I didn’t specifically ask for it. So it seems like it can happen, just not in a consistent way At this point I’m mostly trying to understand whether there are any good practices that make this work better. If anyone has a better way to phrase it or a more reliable workflow, I’d really like to hear it

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