I beleive I answered this above. There is nothing to fix. That would be the coding of that overlay template as I noted above. Your photo is shown in proportion to the overlay image which means if your thumb can not cover the whole overlay than the background is shown hense black
Therefore as such in the thumbnail-round.tmpl there is this
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You can change that background color to white in your case to not show that black