[image] OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API. Generate reusable assets you can place on any background—for product imagery, graphic design, website mockups, and marketing campaigns. pic.x.com/yRhBIYh8uP …

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Touché… well played… it’s about time… :rofl:

Just so you know: I think the record player is on fire - thank me later :+1: (the boy being chased is a really nice vivid demo, thanks!)

This didn’t need a meandering cookbook. One liner: "background":"transparent" is no longer refused by the API with gpt-image-2. Use my existing API AI image editor , where I did not gate the background values by model, to make a “generate” request. Done: [image] Save to PNG, WebP, or GIF file fo…

[image] jeffvpace: Yay, Yay, anywhere that you follow the use cases of the first post here, to create image assets to overlay somewhere, will contaminate the whole of the other imagery with “It’s AI!” watermark detections . [Untitled]

Actually, that was an image edit → transparency. Not quite sure what you are talking about. The image was verified.

What am I talking about? OpenAI uses a SynthID variant to embed AI image identification watermarking into the surface of output imagery. Cookbook’s suggestion: Design-template assets: Generate app icons, stickers, and decorative elements that users can place on any template or background. You …

Sorry, but I quess I’m just simple-minded…

Nice, now we can finally have proper pets! [running-right]

BUG The PNG I requested and got back from my first trial at quality:low has a flaw in the API. The imagery is not truly opaque where it should be. The alpha channel values of the car are 253 of 255, with some subtle noisy variations being alpha = 252-254. I checked again with “medium” and 1536x102…

Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API

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LarisaHaster September 16, 2026, 9:57am 22

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Is transparent background support broken in GPT-image-2?

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Is transparent background support broken in GPT-image-2? Bugs	4	81	October 1, 2026
Gpt-image-1 - Transparent backgrounds with Edit request API image-generation	11	4346	July 29, 2025
Transparency with new image models API api , image-generation , feature-request	4	260	June 25, 2026
Does background="transparent" also change the rendering style of gpt-image-2? API image-generation , gpt-image-2	2	167	August 26, 2026
Gpt-image-1 Transparency / "Remove background" also cuts out other white spots of the image Bugs gpt-image-1	8	1456	May 30, 2025

Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API

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