I made that same mistake my first time around when I'd merged head images. It's important to use an image editing program that supports transparency. For me it's only an issue when modding a png file. I love Photoshop and miss being able to use it on this computer. Gimp works well and I am slowly learning how to use it. I used Gimp to do the merge for you Seashall. It's was very nice of they8pizza to do the mod. She just needs to adjust the 'save' settings and it'll be "good to go".