How do I make part of my Minecraft skin transparent?

I want my Minecraft skin's head to be transparent entirely. If I try this with a skin editor, it shows as black in multiplayer. Is there any way of doing this?

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There is no way of doing this, other than replacing the model for Steve with your own custom model (that has 'holes' in the right places).

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You can't make it invisible to my knowledge, however you can say, make it blend in with nighttime, and only go out after dark, or you can make it blend in with stone, and always stay underground. So other than camouflage you really can't be totally invisible, I'm not sure if the whole blackness thing was intentional at first, but after multiplayer was first implemented (Way back in...Creative, or Survival Test, I think), is probably when Notch made it an actual feature.

In singleplayer, you can change the Steve/Alex texture or model in your resource pack and place that resource pack on your world. However, in multiplayer, this is impossible (you wouldn't want people to cheat, of course.)

I made all my skins with photoshop, where it's pretty easy because TIFF saves information about "transparency" diffrent to many other formats that just fill in white once you save the file... on photoshop you can just simply erase the area and save as TIFF... (transparency is shown with the grey/white sqares in the background layer)

EDIT: ok I just checked my skins and its PNG! this will save your transparency information and just to show you how it looks I made an image of my enderman skin... if you want to get rid of the head... simply delete it... ^^

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