Map Pieces

I bought these map tiles and they have white backgrounds. I cropped them but there are pieces that are corners and crosses. I edited them in gimp and made the white parts transparent but then they still show up with the white pieces which make it impossible to line them up with the other pieces. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way around this? Trying to build an alley for a street brawl and just a straight piece that plays out like an old west street brawl. Everyone facing forward down a wide path....

Which set is this?

When you save your edited pieces, are you saving them as PNGs, with transparency? JPGs will not have transparent backgrounds, and GIFs are problematic for many reasons.

They are from shadowplans their tileset. I cropped the images because they were all surrounded by white. So I clipped the white off most of the images using cropping tools. However like I said some of them were corner and cross pieces and thus I couldn't crop out the white parts. I edited them in gimp and made all the white pieces transparent. Saved as PNG uploaded as PNG and the white just comes right back.

Ah, thought you meant a Marketplace set.  Probably Keith is right, it's a case of saving in a file format that doesn't support transparency.

I could invite you guys to the map if you need visuals. I would share the images but it was something I paid for and I highly doubt that is alright. Also I might not be saving them as transparency but I did it in gimp selecting the white pieces making them transparent and then exporting them out as png files and then uploading them and they still have the white pieces.

The set says it includes PNGs, and the sample images seem to indicate they have transparency in all the right places.  You're certain you're using the export to png, not just saving the file with a png extension?  I don't mean to question your GIMPing skills, but I've used it before, so I know it's not that intuitive at times.  Possibly there's a setting in the PNG Exporter for preserving transparency that is off?

Oh, that might be what I did. When I purchased them they had JPG and PNG and when I downloaded them I only downloaded the JPG and then when I edited them saved as PNG but maybe that caused a loss in the transparency since they were originally not set to be transparent. Going to download the png set and see if that doesn't work. Wow, I totally forgot I did that. Ah, the things that happen to busy minds lol.

Hmmm I seem to be wrong they are labeled in the file as JPG's like the folder but they are PNG and still cannot seem to make them transparent. I am going to try and write to the person who made them. Also there is a PDF printable version not sure if that would help.

Yeah I redownloaded them and even though they are PNG and even though the show up in GIMP as having transparency they still show up on the gameboard with white and don't fit in the squares. So, maybe its the board settings having issues I am not sure I cannot figure it out.

If you change the page background to another color, does it show through?

Let me just invite you to the game. Its the only way I know how to show you whats going down.

Joined. GM me and I’ll take a look when I get back to the house. 

Great. I lined up the matching pieces the ones above are straight out of the map pack. The ones below are the ones I edited the trasparent parts off. As the transparency messes with the size of the piece and they don't line up for crap.

Yeah, JPG's don't have transparency, and getting the edges "just right" before exporting to PNG is often a pain.