This is still a very rough draft, so comments are welcome.

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Thanks for working on this, I can confirm that by setting reader_kwargs={"set_fill_value": 255} the issue I originally had in #2897 is resolved :)

Would it be possible though to read a PNG image with alpha channel and store it again with Scene.save_datasets and retain the alpha channel? So far I have not found a way.

set_fill_value -> fill_value?

Seems odd to me to have a verb in a variable name. Then again I am probably guilty of doing use_x_feature=True or filter_x=True. But in this case the action you're doing is the variable you're specifying.