- If you are seeing the gray and white squares around your image, the background is transparent.
- To save it as a transparent .png file, go to Save As. Give your file a name and change the type to PNG. Then click on Options.

- On the Save Options dialog, click Run Optimizer.

- When you are in the Optimizer, click on the Transparency tab. Be sure the settings are the same as those marked in the example below.

