Hi, BurrMan... thank you for your quick response. I’ll definitely keep your script for future use.

The reason I’m using a white background is that, for illustration purposes, images with a white background will behave the same way when the rendering/blending mode is set to Multiply. This feature is available in CorelDRAW, and I’m fairly certain that this blending mode is very common in other software as well.

Since the clipboard image will most likely be pasted onto a white background, the result of using Multiply should be very similar to the original clipboard image.

The downside of this method, of course, is that if the pasted image (with Multiply mode applied) is moved over another element, the original image will change, even though the areas that were originally white in the background won’t change at all—anything multiplied by white will remain exactly the same colour.

That’s actually why I’m asking for help on the forum... although I’ve never heard of a way for an image in the clipboard to designate certain areas as transparent.

In any case, I really appreciate your help. Thank you very much!