# Plots/GR: \`savefig\` adds transparency to my picture?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plotting, plots, gr
**Created:** [January 25, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511 "2023-01-25T14:11:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sim)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/1 "2023-01-25T14:11:58Z")
Hi, I have a curious phenomenon here which seemingly appeared from nowhere. I am doing a simple plot (using `Plots`) and saving it to a file ; but the saved version seems to be transparent.
The MWE is
```julia
using Plots
heatmap(rand(8,8))
p=plot!(aspect_ratio=:equal, colorbar=false, axis=([], false))
savefig(p, "test.png")
```
and here is what I get in my editor : left is my notebook showing the picture, right is the saved picture.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/2 "2023-01-25T15:18:28Z")
This issue occurs while plotting with default gr backend, but not with pythonplot.
For similar result, use keyword argument `border=:none`, which works fine with gr():
```julia
p = heatmap(rand(8,8))
plot!(aspect_ratio=:equal, colorbar=false, border=:none)
```
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### Author:  [@sim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sim)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/3 "2023-03-31T13:31:20Z")
Hi Rafael (and sorry for this quite late answer !).
So there is no way to correctly save a coloured figure in the gr backend ???
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/4 "2023-03-31T16:53:26Z")
@jheinen any thoughts what might be happening here?
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/5 "2023-03-31T16:54:57Z")
> [@sim](#):
>
> So there is no way to correctly save a coloured figure in the gr backend ?
If you use the command that I recommended, then there is no issue with `gr()` backend. The saved figure looks good:
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### Author:  [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/6 "2023-04-01T08:53:23Z")
For me, `p=plot!(aspect_ratio=:equal, colorbar=false, axis=([], false))` produces transparent plots both in the REPL and when saving the picture as a PNG. I’ll check it ASAP.
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### Author:  [@sim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sim)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/7 "2023-04-17T07:52:28Z")
Juste checked again and `border=:none` solves my question, thanks. However this behaviour is quite strange !
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### Author:  [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-gr-savefig-adds-transparency-to-my-picture/93511/8 "2023-04-17T12:49:09Z")
Sorry for the late reply. [This](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/4724) MR should fix the problem.