Background pictures replace main pic

Every time I try to drag the background picture to the background it replaces the original photo.
What is wrong

Sorry but I do not understand your question - can you explain what you are doing and where please
LN

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The problem is that I can't seem to get the background picture to "stick", as it were. I've set up a folder with a bg pic and dragged it onto Disc Utility to create a compressed disc image, but the background disappears when I open the finished product. I've tried altering the disc image once it's finished instead, but as soon as I eject it and re-load the image, it's lost its background picture.
I sort of managed to get this to work by creating an uncompressed read/write disc image with Disc Utility instead and then altering the contents with my background picture, but when I transfer it to another computer my settings have vanished. This isn't really an ideal solution anyway, though, as I would rather used a compressed image for internet distribution.
I've tried doing a search on this forum for similar queries, but most of them seem to concentrate on how to make the background picture a hidden file, which I'm not terribly concerned about. That, and I'm not all that keen on too much fiddling about in the Terminal...
So, can anyone help me here? How do those shareware developers make their custom disc images? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Today, the problem suddenly appeared on my other Mac, which made me look at recent apps..
I installed Team Viewer a month ago, (which is a great app apart from this) so quit it and removed it from the dock. Problem solved!!
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once I got a nice idea while watching some webpages. we can give a background picture for a webpage in <body> tag?
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santhosh

Hi everybody!
Finally I got it. now Using this We can enable background for any swing application.
the complete code is shown here. If you have any problems regarding this code, please mail to [email protected]
/******************************[TexturedImageIcon.java]***********************/
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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          g2 = bimg.createGraphics();
          Rectangle2D rect = new Rectangle2D.Float(0,0,size.width-1, size.height-1);
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     public int getIconHeight(){ return size.height; }
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/*********************************[JFCUtils.java]************************/
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          f.setSize(300,300);
          f.show();
/*************************************[UserDialog.java]**************************/
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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
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     JTextField nameField = new JTextField(20);
     JTextField emailField = new JTextField(20);
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     JTextField pwdField1 = new JPasswordField(20);
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          west.add(new JLabel("Full Name"));
          west.add(new JLabel("Email"));
          west.add(new JLabel("SMTP Server"));
          west.add(new JLabel("Password"));
          west.add(new JLabel("Confirm Password"));
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          east.add(nameField);
          east.add(emailField);
          east.add(smtpServerField);
          east.add(pwdField);
          east.add(pwdField1);
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          JButton cancel = new JButton("Cancel");
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          nameField.setText("");
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After rotobrush, how to make background picture appear in the video when exporting it to PremierePro

I seem to have problems saving/using it with premiere pro. it's a 10 second video of myself with 3 pics: 2 that I put in front of the video and one as a background. In after effects, in the bottom left corner box, the 2 pics are above the video file and the background picture is below it. Still in after effects, the background pic is there behind me and the 2 other pictures are in front of my video which is where everything should be, great. When i save it, then export it to premiere pro, the 2 pics in front are there but not the background pic, the background is just my full video as if I didn't rotobrush it. Help??
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Hello Mylenium, i do apologize about my ambiguous question. I'm starting to learn how to use it and in some way, i didn't even know what i was talking about myself. But thanks to your help, i now got it.
"When you export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project, Adobe Premiere Pro uses the settings from the first composition in the After Effects project for all subsequent sequences. Keyframes, effects, and other properties are converted in the same way as when you paste an After Effects layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence."
so as it says above, it only uses the initial video. What i did was only render using the rotobrush and i didn't "render queue" the whole project afterwards simply because i didn't know i had to do that. I thought rendering it from rotobrushing it and adding the background effects would be enough.
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not helpful. it's no feature, it's a bug!
If there's an option for changing the background picture, one should be able to do so. Or, to make things easier, the function i mentioned should use media browser by default and not the finder / file opener.
Seems to me that making the iPhoto Library a Package was one of the monday-morning-ideas of apple
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