How to make a transparent Label over a PictureBox.

The Label control become a child of the Form when using the Form Designer.

It's the cause of opaque. We need to set Parent property to the PictureBox

object after InitializeComponent.

InitializeComponent();

label1.Parent = pictureBox1;

label1.BackColor = Color.Transparent;

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