Hi David

Thanks for posting! At this point we do not have a feature that allows you to make image backgrounds transparent. We would love to have your help in communicating this issue to our product team. Could you please post your idea to this page in the community?

Done thanks Navva.

I would also appreciate a tool where I could import eg. a pdf-file set it to the correct scale and put a lucidchart layer on top of this. Is this not possible?

Hi Tor thanks for following up on this thread. You can import a PDF PNG or JPEG image file into Lucidchart by dragging or copy/pasting it directly onto your canvas. You can also click the image icon at the top of the shapes panel and select "Image" to import it from the file picker.

Once you have the file in your document you can add layers to cover it. As mentioned earlier in this thread it's not currently possible to edit or format the actual content of the PDF or image file from Lucidchart once it is in your document so you couldn't give an image a transparent background. Creating a layer to cover parts of the image could definitely be a good workaround for this. Thanks for your input!

The Pages app on MacOS has a really nice and intuitive Image -> "Instant Alpha" feature for setting parts of an image as transparent.

Actually there is one quite funny workaround :) Copy Your image to app like PowerPoint. Make the picture transparent there with use of "Picture format > Color > Set Transparent color". Then copy & paste it from PowerPoint to Lucid and it works :)

Hi Adam! Thanks for sharing this great workaround!