Jpeg and Area Plan

[Anonymous]

I am starting a new project and one of the first tasks is to make an area plan for cost estimating. We have some pre-existing images that we have brought in (to scale) to our area plan view. My question is this:

Is there a way to place colored area regions over a jpeg image and still be able to see the image linework from underneath?  I have tried making the color scheme location "background" but this doesn't seem to help. Moving the Jpeg image to the "foreground" masks the color scheme of the area plan. 

I thought about converting the image to a transparent png but from what I've read, Revit does not support transparent images.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Lisbet

[syman2000]

You can add transparency to the Area object. First just use comments and add Transparency

Then create filter

Then set it to 60% and it will see thru your JPG

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you!@ Problem solved.