Transparent graphic in layered background

I haven't used DVD Studio much, but I know this should be possible. I've designed all my menus in photoshop and in the background of all of them I have a graphic that is almost transparent, like a watermark. When I import the.psd file it won't show it as transparent, but shows it fully visible. I opened up my file back in photoshop and saved it as a .png to preserve transparency and it worked, but my question is how can I have that transparent .png in the background with the photoshop layers on top of it? So far from what I can see DVD Studio(3) isn't letting me put one graphic over another (.psd over the .png).

You will need to flatten the photoshop layer with the transparency down to a bacground layer (i.e. on white or whatever it is over)
Overall you are better using flattened PICT files for a base layer and one for an overlay, usually provides the best results (less weirdness/issues), though you can use the PSD method (remember to rasterize all text and flatten all layers with effects)

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