The plain white background worked for me and I got past the straight on situation by using the cloning brushes in my graphics app. That worked terrific. I just kept making new layers and cloning/erasing until I got what I wanted-and some of my images were with faces turned quite a bit. Used a little smudge too G. I have both versions of the Cosmo hair and prefer the .tga files the best--really easy to use, but if that isn't what you have, then the other way is okay--just a bit more work. Diane