needing major help ! :D!! :D

I am having a odd problem with anything that I make thats upper body peice of clothing that I am using alpha for that is transparent . When I load for example a shirt, i get like a white sheen *almost like a layer over the shirt that I made* But when I go into layers theres nothing there that would cause that from what I can see, the orginal color of the shirt is not even vivid when I load the shirt into SL because of this sheen white layer over the shirt. The color looks distorted.
I have not had this problem on lower body templets like pants or skirts for example.
Just upper body, can anyone else tell me if this has ever happend to them with thier upper body things they have made?
here is a example of how I do my alpha just for info..
I make my design on the upper body templete once completed, I use the magic wand in my working layer and click on the areas that i want to be transparent *BLACK on my alpha*
I click those areas, then I go into my channels to the alpha layer which is white and I can see the area highlighted that I chose with the magic wand , then I fill that area in with black and the shirt I made shows up white .
This is how I make my alpha on every peice of clothing and its usually fine, but again I am having like a white sheen over the shirts,or anything that is upper body** that I make.
Does this problem sound familar to anyone?
Any advice would be great =)

Thanks for your help!!
*Gina*

It's kind of hard to tell from what you describe if this is the issue or not, but it seems both PhotoShop and PaintShop Pro have a slight issue with generating alphas.

well its kinda like that but its not like a white fringe around the image its more like a clear transparent almost white layer that covers the hole image on your avator and the colors are distorted , And I do use photoshop CS
Thanks*gina*