Image Plane going black

[Birchmark]

Hi
Does anyone know why this is or how to fix it? I am trying to import a png into blender as an image plane. I used one from lynda.com and it behaved correctly. I put it in, zoomed in on it, pressed n and clicked textured solid in the menu that came up and the picture on it came up fine.
I tried to do it with my own image plane I made and instead of coming up with the picture, the image plane turned black. Both of the pictures were png and I don't know what is possibly wrong with it.
Does anyone know why one png would work and another wouldn't and / or know how to fix this problem?
Thank you for your help
Regards
Birchmark

[Birchmark]

Well I don't know if this was the right solution but I went back into the GIMP file and just added a white background and it now works because apparently transparent stuff is showing up black so perhaps the other one that worked was a png but had no transparent bits and just had a white background. So, I don't know if it was the right solution, but I found a solution.

[Scre]

u can also turn on alpha in blender then it should work and show correct with the transparent in place

[Mr Chappy]

Originally posted by Birchmark:

Well I don't know if this was the right solution but I went back into the GIMP file and just added a white background and it now works because apparently transparent stuff is showing up black so perhaps the other one that worked was a png but had no transparent bits and just had a white background. So, I don't know if it was the right solution, but I found a solution.

My first thought was does it have transparency, so yes this probably is one right solution :)

Originally posted by Scre:

u can also turn on alpha in blender then it should work and show correct with the transparent in place

This might be the better one though :)

Are you are using the "Add images as planes" add-on?
I'm thinking you might be but if not then you should enable it in the user prefs and give it a try. It means that the plane is auto generated so it has the correct dimensions for the image which means no distortion.

[Birchmark]

Hi, yes it was add images as planes I was using. Sorry, have been moving so not on computer much last couple of days. Thanks to both of you.