Transparency tool not working with picture frames

[DanEv 1]

Is it correct that only a photo imported to a document using the Place Image Tool can then have transparency applied to it using the Transparency Tool? If I draw a picture frame then place a photo, when I try to apply transparency, the slider appears in the photo but has no affect, which seems odd.

[PaulEC 121]

Are you sure you are applying the transparency to the picture, not to the frame? (Check you have the right layer in the layers panel.)

[fde101 738]

4 hours ago, PaulEC said:

Are you sure you are applying the transparency to the picture, not to the frame?

That is what I'm thinking too... that the transparency could be applied to the already-transparent frame instead of to the picture within the frame.

[DanEv 1]

Thanks PaulEC & fde101, that has been the issue.