>Just make the area where you don't want to have transparency black in the msk file and leave/make the rest white. This should do the job. This a generic bmp mechanism which works in all VFP versions.
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>>Now I have psychedelic colors all over.
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>Wasn't that in the 70's ? < vbg >

To be honest, I think I prefer the psychedelic result over
the original image... But my client doesn't :)

Danke shoen Armin