How to import .tif to Google Earth without black background?

[EricSpeece1]

I have been working on a solution to this problem for about a week with no luck. I have create a raster data set and exported it as a .tif file with the intentions of adding the Aerial overlay to Google Earth. My problem is the Black Background comes in Google Earth even though I have set the background to no color in my raster symbology. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks,

[IanMurray]

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/FS52IeU4mtw

Based on this thread and my own experience, converting to a PNG should allow you to have transparent raster values in Google Earth.

Conversely instead of trying to create an overlay from your existing image, you could use the Map to KML Tool to create a georeferenced KMZ of your map.

https://community.esri.com/thread/31961

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/conversion-toolbox/map-to-kml.htm

[EricSpeece1]

Thank you Ian. This helps a lot, I tried the to kml tool but the image was very distorted. PNG worked fine though. Thanks

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[humzakhan]

Hello, 

I am now actually having the same issue presented here, and wanted to see if you were able to find a solution? I still need to obtain a TIF and KMZ file so simply image overlaying a PNG won't work. Any help is appreciated thanks!