Can anyone tell me why when I edit a transparent .pgn file like the user pane of the start menu in photoshop and save it it loses it's transparency?

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What I did was this:
 1. Set the options I wanted to the user pane (connect to, printers, run, help and support etc.) These need to remain static.
 2. Used Style Hack to set the width of the program pane.
 3. Used Clip-it to capture the startup menu. Loaded the cliped start menu .png into photoshop and sized my custom picture to it.
 4 In VSB I edited the program panel in photoshop and and 'squished' the picture into the program panel. distorting it horizontally and verticly. Now when the panel resizes according to system parameters the picture will be the right size.

I don't know it you can do this with Paint, you made need Photoshop. (removed - no piracy).

I tried this and had to size the picture to the size I wanted the menu to be.  If I changed the width or added options to the user pane the picture streched.  Also, the all programs menu turned out pretty ugly because vista clears an area around the program list. I eventually abandoned the idea.

I had a simular problem and it had to do with the start button.  If you start button will not be totaly visable on the task bar, the task bar resizes to accomodate the button.  Try resizing the start button,  design a smaller one, or fine some small ones on deviant art, visual style section.  I hpe this helps

I have a problem when editing an existing image in a .theme file.  When I call up image in my editor (Photoshop Elements 6.0) the editor tells me that the image has 100% opacity when it is obviously not.  When I edit and save chages to the image it becomes  100% opaque. Is there a way to determine the opacity of an image or is there a vista or windows standard percentage for opacity?