Alpha Blending Help

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I'm working on a new wb skin, and I was wondering how the alpha blending works. If I select the type of blending I wan't, the whole image gets transparent instead of the part I want:
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I had a similar problem with the Logoff background. MikeB figured out why it went transparent, the image had to be the same size as the Logoff BG in SKS. Not sure why it's doing it with the places menu...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wan't it to be transparent, just not the whole image. Just like the pearlthane skin for 2b 4.5.
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If start panel is black, then this looks like pearlhtane, transparent places panel, everything else normal. If you
could explain fully what you want to do maybe someone will have the answer.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wan't it to look more like this



Instead of this:



(The weird purple/black part of the start panel is the bliss wallpaper)
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The tga image in pearthane alpha is 230, setting in SkinStudio for start panel effect is blur, but from checking
WB's with alpha start panel, color seems to make a big difference. To have it look like pearlthane you would need
to use settings and very close to same color. If you have, if not download, Bloss and StealthOS, both have alpha
start panel. By looking at a few examples may help you get the look you want.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Many questions:

1) What is a tga
2) How do I make the tga (i'm assuming its an image) transparent
3) Does PSP 9 support it?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
1. Truevision Targa format
2. Don't know...
3. Yes (Read/Write)

edit: There is information on transparency in tga format in the PSP forum.
Can't get the link to work...go to the PSP forum http://forums.jasc.com/default.asp?boardid=PaintShopPro
go to Previous Versions (2nd from bottom), then scroll down about half way to thread called "Transparency in tga and pcx files?"
That thread has the instructions
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
tga is an image format, used for WB for alpha transparency, as for PSP 9 I can't answer. There are a few threads on
forum about tga but I could not find any that start with the basics, could not find anything about PSP 9. Maybe post
new thread asking for tga/ PSP 9 help. For tga on forums use search in Browse Site left side of page.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I found a thread with info on the Jasc/PSP forum, but can't seem to link to the thread directly...so I edited my previous post with directions to their forum. Hope it helps.