If I import a 24 bit image and insert it into the document and use that same image to apply transparency, why does the transparency bitmap become so much larger than the image?

Wouldn't it make sense to apply the transparency at the same size as a fill would be applied?

It's a pain making the fill and transparency line up when by default they are applied mis-aligned.

Can this be fixed? Or is there some keyboard shortcut combo that I don't know about?