diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Colors/Color.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Colors/Color.cs
index 0f4d26ce1..a1ca1817f 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Colors/Color.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Colors/Color.cs
@@ -473,13 +473,9 @@ namespace ImageProcessor
         public static Color Lerp(Color from, Color to, float amount)
         {
             amount = amount.Clamp(0f, 1f);
-
-            if (to.A < 1)
-            {
-                return (from * (1 - amount)) + to; 
-            }
-
-            return (from * (1 - amount)) + (to * amount);
+            
+            // Premultiplied.
+            return (from * (1 - amount)) + to;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Filters/BackgroundColor.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Filters/BackgroundColor.cs
index 58c33db7e..e1e49d142 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Filters/BackgroundColor.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Filters/BackgroundColor.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// <copyright file="Blend.cs" company="James Jackson-South">
+// <copyright file="BackgroundColor.cs" company="James Jackson-South">
 // Copyright (c) James Jackson-South and contributors.
 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 // </copyright>
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Filters
     public class BackgroundColor : ParallelImageProcessor
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Blend"/> class.
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="BackgroundColor"/> class.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="color">The <see cref="Color"/> to set the background color to.</param>
         public BackgroundColor(Color color)
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Filters
                         {
                             Color color = source[x, y];
 
-                            if (color.A < 1)
+                            if (color == Color.Empty)
+                            {
+                                color = backgroundColor;
+                            }
+                            else if (color.A < 1)
                             {
                                 color = Color.Lerp(color, backgroundColor, .5f);
                             }
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Bmp/BmpEncoder.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Bmp/BmpEncoder.cs
index 2cb80ef7e..d227ec1d1 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Bmp/BmpEncoder.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Bmp/BmpEncoder.cs
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
     /// <remarks>The encoder can currently only write 24-bit rgb images to streams.</remarks>
     public class BmpEncoder : IImageEncoder
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        private int threshold = 128;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets or sets the quality of output for images.
         /// </summary>
@@ -26,6 +31,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public string Extension => "bmp";
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Threshold
+        {
+            get { return this.threshold; }
+            set { this.threshold = value.Clamp(0, 255); }
+        }
+
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public bool IsSupportedFileExtension(string extension)
         {
@@ -77,7 +91,7 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
 
             WriteInfo(writer, infoHeader);
 
-            WriteImage(writer, image);
+            this.WriteImage(writer, image);
 
             writer.Flush();
         }
@@ -91,7 +105,7 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// <param name="image">
         /// The <see cref="ImageBase"/> containing pixel data.
         /// </param>
-        private static void WriteImage(BinaryWriter writer, ImageBase image)
+        private void WriteImage(BinaryWriter writer, ImageBase image)
         {
             // TODO: Add more compression formats.
             int amount = (image.Width * 3) % 4;
@@ -119,6 +133,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
                     // Implicit cast to Bgra32 handles premultiplication conversion.
                     Bgra32 color = new Color(r, g, b, a);
 
+                    if (color.A < this.Threshold)
+                    {
+                        color = new Bgra32(0, 0, 0, 0);
+                    }
+
                     writer.Write(color.B);
                     writer.Write(color.G);
                     writer.Write(color.R);
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/GifEncoder.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/GifEncoder.cs
index 5ea513dad..d50182448 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/GifEncoder.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/GifEncoder.cs
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
     /// </summary>
     public class GifEncoder : IImageEncoder
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        private int threshold = 128;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets or sets the quality of output for images.
         /// </summary>
@@ -25,6 +30,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
 
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public string MimeType => "image/gif";
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Threshold
+        {
+            get { return this.threshold; }
+            set { this.threshold = value.Clamp(0, 255); }
+        }
 
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public bool IsSupportedFileExtension(string extension)
@@ -123,7 +137,7 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         private QuantizedImage WriteColorTable(ImageBase image, Stream stream, int quality, int bitDepth)
         {
             // Quantize the image returning a pallete.
-            IQuantizer quantizer = new OctreeQuantizer(quality.Clamp(1, 255), bitDepth);
+            IQuantizer quantizer = new OctreeQuantizer(quality.Clamp(1, 255), bitDepth) {Threshold = this.threshold};
             QuantizedImage quantizedImage = quantizer.Quantize(image);
 
             // Grab the pallete and write it to the stream.
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/Quantizer/OctreeQuantizer.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/Quantizer/OctreeQuantizer.cs
index b7a04aab2..7954e1af7 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/Quantizer/OctreeQuantizer.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Gif/Quantizer/OctreeQuantizer.cs
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// </summary>
         private readonly int maxColors;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        private int threshold = 128;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="OctreeQuantizer"/> class.
         /// </summary>
@@ -63,7 +68,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
         /// </summary>
-        public byte Threshold { get; set; } = 128;
+        public int Threshold
+        {
+            get { return this.threshold; }
+            set { this.threshold = value.Clamp(0, 255); }
+        }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Process the pixel in the first pass of the algorithm
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/IImageEncoder.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/IImageEncoder.cs
index bda8dbb42..eb0df5561 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/IImageEncoder.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/IImageEncoder.cs
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// </summary>
         int Quality { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        int Threshold { get; set; }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets the standard identifier used on the Internet to indicate the type of data that a file contains.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Jpg/JpegEncoder.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Jpg/JpegEncoder.cs
index 93c4a9de3..30fd6574c 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Jpg/JpegEncoder.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Jpg/JpegEncoder.cs
@@ -17,10 +17,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
     public class JpegEncoder : IImageEncoder
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// The jpeg quality.
+        /// The quality.
         /// </summary>
         private int quality = 100;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        private int threshold = 128;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets or sets the quality, that will be used to encode the image. Quality
         /// index must be between 0 and 100 (compression from max to min).
@@ -32,6 +37,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
             set { this.quality = value.Clamp(1, 100); }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Threshold
+        {
+            get { return this.threshold; }
+            set { this.threshold = value.Clamp(0, 255); }
+        }
+
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public string MimeType => "image/jpeg";
 
@@ -114,6 +128,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
                             // Implicit cast to Bgra32 handles premultiplication conversion.
                             Bgra32 color = new Color(r, g, b, a);
 
+                            if (color.A < this.Threshold)
+                            {
+                                color = new Bgra32(0, 0, 0, 0);
+                            }
+
                             samples[start] = color.R;
                             samples[start + 1] = color.G;
                             samples[start + 2] = color.B;
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Png/PngEncoder.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Png/PngEncoder.cs
index 00ba4b0a3..0b9edb44e 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Png/PngEncoder.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Formats/Png/PngEncoder.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// </summary>
         private const int MaxBlockSize = 0xFFFF;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        private int threshold;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PngEncoder"/> class.
         /// </summary>
@@ -32,6 +37,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
         /// <remarks>Png is a lossless format so this is not used in this encoder.</remarks>
         public int Quality { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the transparency threshold.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Threshold
+        {
+            get { return this.threshold; }
+            set { this.threshold = value.Clamp(0, 255); }
+        }
+
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public string MimeType => "image/png";
 
@@ -329,6 +343,11 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Formats
                     // Implicit cast to Bgra32 handles premultiplication conversion.
                     Bgra32 color = new Color(r, g, b, a);
 
+                    if (color.A < this.Threshold)
+                    {
+                        color = new Bgra32(0, 0, 0, 0);
+                    }
+
                     data[dataOffset] = color.R;
                     data[dataOffset + 1] = color.G;
                     data[dataOffset + 2] = color.B;
diff --git a/src/ImageProcessor/Samplers/Resampler.cs b/src/ImageProcessor/Samplers/Resampler.cs
index 0f932b2af..a98ac835e 100644
--- a/src/ImageProcessor/Samplers/Resampler.cs
+++ b/src/ImageProcessor/Samplers/Resampler.cs
@@ -157,15 +157,15 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Samplers
 
                             // Restrict alpha values in an attempt to prevent bleed.
                             // This is a baaaaaaad hack!!!
-                            if (destination.A <= 0.03)
-                            {
-                                destination = Color.Empty;
-                            }
-                            else
-                            {
+                            //if (destination.A <= 0.03)
+                            //{
+                            //    destination = Color.Empty;
+                            //}
+                            //else
+                            //{
                                 destination = Color.Compand(destination);
                                 destination.A = (float)Math.Round(destination.A, 2);
-                            }
+                            //}
 
                             target[x, y] = destination;
                         }
diff --git a/tests/ImageProcessor.Tests/Processors/Samplers/SamplerTests.cs b/tests/ImageProcessor.Tests/Processors/Samplers/SamplerTests.cs
index 355230843..e171341f8 100644
--- a/tests/ImageProcessor.Tests/Processors/Samplers/SamplerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ImageProcessor.Tests/Processors/Samplers/SamplerTests.cs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ namespace ImageProcessor.Tests
                 {
                     Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
                     Image image = new Image(stream);
-                    string filename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file) + "-" + name + ".jpg";
+                    string filename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file) + "-" + name + Path.GetExtension(file);
                     using (FileStream output = File.OpenWrite($"TestOutput/Resized/{filename}"))
                     {
                         image.Resize(image.Width / 2, image.Height / 2, sampler).Save(output);