The poor man's photoshop

[Garamonde]

Does the transparency issue also exist with PSDs? When making sheets I just keep mine in XCF format (GIMP's equivalent of PSD) to preserve the layers, and then when I'm done I add the background and save as PNG.
If you can open PSDs with transparency, you could work with PSDs to keep transparency while making sheets, then save the end result as PNG.

That had occurred to me while I was writing that post, actually (except that I've never used .PSD format). The only thing is that working with the sheet as one format with transparency, then converting it to .PNG does not keep the transparency. But if I wanted a colored BG, I would've kept it as a .PNG with no layers in the first place (which is what I do most of the time).

I COULD try to keep the image as a .PSP file and then copy the contents over to a new image and save as a transparent .PNG though. It's just when saving, selecting .PNG has become second nature thanks to TSR. XD