Transparency, layers and Avatars

Hi everyone,
I am working on an application which involves overlapping an image over one another. For that, is transparency feature available in flex ? I mean, can we manipulate images in flex dynamically to add transparent layers the way we do in adobe photoshop?
The idea is that of an avatar. For example: If we look at online avatars, we chose if we want the image to be a male or female, then we chose the color of the hair..indicating..lets say the age of the avatar, then we may choose to change the skin tone of the avatar..indicating the ethnicity of the avatar and so on. In all this, transparency or the concept of layers is required for image manipulation. Can that be done dynamically in flex ? Thanks.
Regards,
Puneet.

Hi there,
I don't get the idea in detail, but it is possible to do it with .png or .swf files. Explain a little more in detail if you can ???
E.g. how would you want to handle these layers ???
regards aktell2007

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