# OpenAI Adds Transparent Background Preview for GPT-Image-2 API

Developers can now generate assets with transparent backgrounds via the API for product imagery, graphic design, website mockups, and marketing campaigns.

- The feature is available in preview mode through the OpenAI API
- OpenAI published a cookbook guide covering multimodal transparent asset generation for presentations and campaigns

## Why it matters

Developers building design and e-commerce workflows can now create composable image assets without needing a separate background-removal step.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: OpenAI Adds Transparent Background Preview for GPT-Image-2 API](https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2090536933571330440)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-08-20. https://dstilled.ai/story/2498557e-1942-4b9a-a4b6-1f71f49102c9