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Yes, you're correct. Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery will do all you say.
What I'm talking about is choosing a background for your desktop. A .png
file will not display properly, that is, it will not let you frame it with a
colored background. In fact, when you browse for a picture for your
background and select "All Picture Files" it will not show any .png files at
all. If you force the .png file to be the background by right-clicking on it
and choosing it to be your background then you do not get to choose any
positioning for your picture such as tile, colored framing, etc. This is
what I'm trying to fix. Can you help me?

"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:01:05 -0700, Page
> <Page@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have the same issue, but here's something to consider. I've previously
> >saved pictures from the web as .png files and saved them as backgrounds for
> >years with XP. Now, with Vista, I do your suggested workaround it will not
> >recognize .png files as "picture files" so maybe that has something to do
> >with it? When I save the same file as a bitmap it works like you said. What
> >type of files are you working with, and do you think this might be part of
> >the problem?
>
> Vista is perfectly capable of understanding and displaying .png files.
> I just confirmed it by converting a .jpg to a .png in Photoshop and
> both Windows Explorer and Photo Galley open the file and show it find
> as both a thumbnail and in full view. It is true you can't "fix" a
> ..png from Photo Gallery. Why that's so, you'll have to ask Microsoft.
>
> For those wondering about .png files, it carries a Alpha channel. This
> means that with the right software (Photoshop for example) you can
> mask a portion of the image, typically some unwanted background, mark
> A color or selected area as transparent then using another application
> that supports layers have the Alpha channel blocked out, in effect
> letting what's underneath bleed though.
>
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