Need Help Creating (more) Complicated iChat Backgrounds/Effects

I was wondering how you can make an iChat background transparent or make the image apply "over" the video.
If anyone has installed an extra effect package, ones such as the mona lisa (a picture of the mona lisa with the eyes and mouth cut out so that you can see the video through those) Like this:
!http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7742/monalisacopyji6.jpg!
So does anyone know how to make an image like this?
Thanks

Hi,
From your Install Disk Install Developer Tools
This will give you Quartz Composer.
This in turn will allow you to Open the Compositions.
Copy (Duplicate) one to work from and experiment.
You will found out how to put a pic of your choice in the place of the one being used.
Some obviously place the Pic to the Background and others as the Foreground with holes "cut in them"
Cutting the holes is done in a Graphics App and th items needs saving as one that supports Transparancy (.gif or .png)
7:56 PM Wednesday; February 4, 2009

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