White opaque layer on top of Today screen background image

[bC6]

Great, so not selecting an image as background through the >settings>today
and checking >use image then >browse does not offer the transparency
setting, but not checking the box then selecting the image from file explorer
>my pictures and in the menu
>set as background brings up the transparency setting which was at 65%
and is now 0 and looking sweet.

Thank you all for the excellent help.