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Your GPX track on a transparent background, to lay over a photo.

No sheet at all: the line, the map and your stats on nothing, in a PNG that keeps its transparency. It goes onto a photo of the outing, a video or an edit, and it is free, with no account and no watermark.

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The Transparent style on two outings, a hike at Mont-Dore and a marathon in Paris: the map and pale type with no sheet behind them, laid on a chequerboard

Three steps.

  1. 01

    Import the track

    A GPX, a FIT or a TCX, from any app: the guide says where to find it.

  2. 02

    Pick Transparent

    In the Styles tab, the Transparent style takes the sheet away in one tap. For a background only partly see-through, pull down its Opacity, under Page.

  3. 03

    Lay it anywhere

    Save the PNG, then add it to a story as a sticker, or to a video as a layer in your editing app.

A track, and nothing around it.

  • Background

    Over a photo, or a video.

    The same poster, on the app’s chequerboard and then over the photo taken that day. In Adret, Page, then Background, then Photo lays it straight onto a picture from your library; transparent, it goes everywhere else.

    The same poster with a transparent background, a ride to Montalivet-les-Bains down to its route, title and stats: laid on a chequerboard, then over a photograph of a bike in the dunes above the sea, in low sun

  • Contents

    Keep only what reads.

    Over a picture, less map reads better: hide the roads, the woods or the names, layer by layer, down to your line alone. Every colour has its own opacity too.

    The same climb of Mont Ventoux twice: on the left the relief, the water and the route alone; on the right every layer of the map, woods, roads, paths and summits included

  • Format

    A PNG, not a JPEG.

    A JPEG cannot keep a transparent background; a PNG can, and it is the format every poster comes out in. A story at 1080×1920, or a post at 1080×1440, portrait or landscape.

    The same walk in the Adret style twice: as a story, in portrait, then as a post in landscape, the map on the left and the title and stats in a column to its right

Fair questions.

Yes, two ways, both free.
  • The quick one: the built-in Transparent style, in the Styles tab.
  • The precise one: the Background colour’s own Opacity slider, with the colour swatches under Page, pulled down to zero.
The export is a PNG, so the transparency survives into the file.

Yes, two ways.
  • In Adret itself: under Page, tap Background, then Photo, and choose it. The poster you share is already laid over it.
  • In Instagram, which also works over a video: give the poster a transparent background, export it, and add the PNG to your story as a sticker.
Either way, the map, the title and the stats keep their colours over the picture.

Yes, free.
  • Under Page, tap Background, then Photo.
  • Choose one from your library.
The map, the track, the title and the stats sit on top of it, and it goes into every export. The background becomes a veil in its own colour: its Opacity slider makes it lighter or denser, and a dark veil keeps white type readable even over a bright sky. The photo fills the sheet, cropped about its centre. If the terrain was shaded, “Shade the terrain” is switched off, since the shading would cover the photo. Tap Photo again to replace it or remove it. Before using the photo, Adret strips out where it was taken.

Two for a screen, both free and with no watermark, chosen under Page, then Format: a story at 1080×1920, or a 3:4 post at 1080×1440. The post can be portrait or landscape, and in landscape the map sits on the left with the title and stats in a column to its right; a story is portrait only. Either is a PNG, handed to your phone’s share sheet, so it can go straight to the photo library, a message or an app; PNG rather than JPEG because the background can be transparent. Adret Pro adds two for paper, at 300 dpi and in portrait or landscape: A3, which prints just as well at A4 or A2 and fits a 50×70 cm frame, and 30×40 cm, which also prints at 60×80.

All the questions

See also.

Your track, wherever you lay it.

Adret is on iPhone, iPad and Android. Free to try, no account, no watermark.

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