Johnpenn, thanks a million. But it appears the transmap is not what I was looking for. Yes, the texture is now okay, the placements are also okay, but the colour is way, way too bright. I cannot get the colour I had before even if I lower diffusion and ambience to zero. If I apply the pic without putting a copy in the alpha channel, the same thing happens as with bump map. Bummer.

-- erlik