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

amy, There are good points to both. (9&X) In X, I liked the fact that you could see each image in the layer palette without having to run your mouse over. I haven't used them (9&X) long enough to see but a lot of folks swear by 9 and I sure was lucky to get a PSP9 as I bet it was one of the last ones sold. Started to use X when I first bought it. Then I ran into a snag which my dear friend JOY gave me a solution to where when e-mailing our "dear" Coral, they gave me the run around and couldn't tell me what Joy did which was such a simple thing. I let them know too. But like I say, what I do do in PSP, PSP7 does it just fine as I only have been resizing, touchups, multiple printing, and copy/paste to MSWord from there what I want to insert. I can't remember which one stopped having Animation shop but as long as you have it now, or a disk with it, you are OK as Animation Shop is a program of it's own that works with 7, 8, 9, & X.

Hi everybody, I made one too. Charlene gave me the idea for the lace frame - - I probably would not have found it otherwise: (Don't ask me why I did not get the black - I was just futzing around!)

When you open PSP on the right hand side you should see the color thing. If you click on one of the boxes a color chart will come up and you can pick which one you want. You can also use patterns and gradients there too. Then just type what you want and it should be the color you picked.