Cormanth

Cairenn, I gotta tell ya. I started doing UI mods with psp5.0 and had so much difficulty, I was just about in your state. Making them transparent was/is no easy chore in that version. As soon as I downloaded psp7.04 everything became clear (no pun intended).

Making transparencies in psp7 is a piece of cake. There are many different methods as people like to do it their own way. I prefer the magic wand method.... click the blackground color with the wand, invert your selection (CTRL+SHIFT+I), then save that selection to the alpha channel. Mind you, it might help to adjust the tolerance of your magic wand. If you have it too high, it will select more than just the background. Play with it a bit for different effects or levels of transparency.

Get psp7, even the trial edition for now (lasts for 60 days). It'll make your .tga editting a whole lot easier. Not to mention it makes making animated Nanas easy for when you're tired of modding skins.

-Cormanth