This is from Jill. I had saved it, don't know if it will help. But I always relied on Jill's expertise. Resolution Settings for printing photos When it comes to printing photos the biggest problem is usually RESOLUTION. Screen resolution is approximately 72 dpi and printer resolution is minimum 150 dpi, higher is better, depending on your printer. 300 is usually good. Look at the Image Information in PSP7 (Image / Image Information). It will give you dimensions in both Pixels and Inches. For an image from my digital camera the dimensions are 1280 x 960 Pixels and 17.778 x 13.333 Inches at 72 Pixels Per Inch (or dpi-dots per inch). If I resize the image to print it I want to increase the Resolution for a better print, which will mean the Dimensions are going to get smaller (more dots to the inch = less inches in the dimensions). In the resize dialog box select the Actual/print size area. Right now it reads: Width = 17.778 inches Height = 13.334 inches Resolution = 72 Pixel/inch If I change the resolution to 150 Pixels/inch the Width and Height dimensions change to: Width = 8.533 Height = 6.4 Changing the resolution to 300 Pixels/inch gives: Width = 4.267 Height = 3.2 If you make a photo larger than the dimension you get when you change the resolution the picture will start to look blurry when printed. The bigger you make it the blurrier it will be. Make sense? I have found PSP to be an excellent tool for working with photos. And for printing my HP PhotoSmart 1000 printer gives excellent results on high quality gloss photo paper and the best photo setting. In fact, from the same digital file I have gotten better prints from my little printer than from the big expensive Xerox color laser printer at Kinko's. If I can help, I would be glad to answer questions about working with photos in PSP. Jill

Finally a question I can answer. The program PSP was sold by Jasc to Corel, therefore a new name. Try opening PSPX, click on Toolbar and scroll to Tools and make sure there is a check there, to show the toolbar. All the tools should show up down the left side of the program including the drawing tool, which I believe is third from the bottom, and looks like a pen nib. There are drop down arrows beside some of the tools, click to see what they are. You must have an image open for the tools to be active. Hope this helps you - new versions are always a pain until you find your way around. Personally, I never quite make it before the next version comes out! Elaine

Hi, this is Karen (jacksmum friend). I want to thank the both of you for your help. Urlee unchecking the retain style box worked. It actually solved both the problems. And I have to agree this computer is the pits but it's all I have until I can find parts for my other one. Now if you don't mind I have another question for you both. How can I move the layers pallette under the materials palette. Om my old computer all 3 of the pallettes (materials, preview, and layer) were all lined up in a nice row on the right hand side of my screen. But when I loaded it onto this computer you see from the screen shot above that they are large and not lined up. Thank you both for all your help! katieangelamber

Elly, they are zipped. There are several ways...this is how I do it..... Left click on the butterfly tube. Save file....into a folder. Right click on the file.... Winzip will give you a choice Choose..."Extract to here" That will open it and add it to the folder. Copy/paste (or drag) the file into... MY Documents/My PSP8 files/Picture Tubes That will add it to your PSP 8 tubes, you should be able to open PSP and it will be there. You can also unzip it right into the picture tubes then delete the zip file. I keep the zip files in case I lose a tube. Joy