I've searched through the forum and have tried different ways of getting this to work with no success. What I'd like to do is draw a png onto a transparent PGraphics buffer and then display it on the screen.
I can make the background transparent or translucent if nothing is written to it with background(x,y,z,alpha), but when I try to draw a png to it it becomes opaque.

I have an example at Stever dot cc. Click on
Processing Transparent Background
at the top of the page

If anyone can give me a hand with this I'd be eternally grateful.

Here's the code:

PImage bg,alfred;
PGraphics pg2;

 
  void setup()
{
 bg = loadImage("slide1_large.jpg");
 alfred = loadImage("alfred.png");
 size(599,629, P3D);
 background(bg);
}

PGraphics getBuffer(PImage img){
  PGraphics pg1= createGraphics(300,300, P3D);
 
  pg1.beginDraw();
   pg1.background(50,50,10,5);
  pg1.image(img,0,0);
  pg1.endDraw();
  return pg1;
}


void draw(){
pg2=getBuffer(alfred);
image(pg2,0,0);   // Buffered Image
image(alfred,300,0);  // Image blit directly to screen
}



Steve

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!
Very very much