The current structure...

Image bg transparent while the ribbon's bg is black...

Add a seporate bg tag
- this effectively doubles the number of tags used for a ribbon...
+ the only API that needs changing is what deals with previews and filters
+ will simplify different image indicator CSS
~~+ will remove LOTS of code dealing with scaling, sizing and rotation...~~ this will not change!

Keep the images on one level and marks outside, after the image...