Image Alpha Background Renders Black when using “Import Images as Planes” 2.0 This is a question about an old question which can be found here. I also found an answer to that question by Cegaton, though the instruction in the answer didn't help me, and I suspect that it might have only worked for the older version. So I'm using Blender version 2.78, I enabled the "use alpha" and it still doesn't work in any view, I used Gimp2 for the alpha channel and exported it into png, and imported as a plane using the addon, the plane is still a picture with black opaque background.

Screenshots:

Picture in GIMP2


Exporting the picture as Png


Importing the picture as a plane


Choosing the picture


The plane in object-solid view


The plane in object-texture view


An Image for you to test on: 
Please note I am not sure if the alpha channel will stay there if you download it please let me know down in the comments.
In your particular case you did not enable 

Use alpha:



In newer versions of blender that box might not be there but you can still select to have transparency as you import the image:



The trasnsparency will only show on Material or Render view, it will not be displayed in texture view.



For more details read the previous answer: 
Image Alpha Background Renders Black when using &quot;Import Images as Planes&quot;