Why am I getting a black background around my images when resizing even when Bitmap is set to Graphics.Clear(Color.Transparent)?

No, you made that background red, not black. Use Color. Transparent if you want to have the alpha of the background set to 0.

Or just omit the Clear(), it is the default for a new bitmap. And avoid Original. RawFormat in the Save() call, you don't want to use an image format that doesn't support transparency.

Png is always good. And be sure that whatever method you use to display the resulting bitmap supports transparency as well. With a well defined background color.

You'll get black when it doesn't, Color. Transparent has R, G and B at 0. Black.

If it is jpg, the it is probably because jpg does not support transparency. You can try to use an output format of PNG which does support transparency.

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