Welcome Jen! FlutteringBy did a great job on answering your questions. I am not familiar with Photo Shop Elements either. I did try Photo Shop and found the learning curve much higher than PSP and seemed to do most of the same things. I prefer PSPX, it is what I am used to now. I did the trial of PSPXI but didn't see enough difference between that or X. So I don't feel the need to upgrade. I think you probably would benefit by updating to at least X as a lot of the tuts are now being written for PSPX. Not that they can't be done in earlier versions, it just makes it easier to follow if you have a more recent version and the newer ones have more features. Just don't un-install PSP7 as the newest PSP's do not come with animation shop. And you may still want to use PSP 7 for some things. It does load quicker than PSPX. I still have 7,9 and PSPX installed. One good way to find tut sites is to check the posts, I as do most others here list the site that they came from and you can just go to the bottom of the tut (in most cases) and find the index or home page of the author for the rest of the tuts. Depending what type of tubes you are looking for I have several tube sites that I just couldn't do without. Let me know and I will send you some. Carol

Joy----I only have Toadies in My PSP8 files which don't work and Virtual Painter that came with PSP8 in Jascs file which works OK. Judy, and Joy, Sue had told me of that too. May have to look into that or just download PSP7 into this machine. I am bushed from trying all things to get it to work yesterday so I am going to lay off it for awhile. Have to finish getting files together to transfer into here from the old computer. Been doing it a little at a time cause I don't want ALL in here as most is stuff I don't use. ~Urlee~

Judy, You would NEVER believe why I couldn't get it to FADE!!!!! I am too embarrassed to tell! It comes from having too many PSP's other than PSP7? "LOL" Altho I couldn't even do it in PSP7 after using the other versions. But I would NEVER take 7 off my puter! It loads much faster if I am in a hurry to look up or save something. It finally hit me last night and me being so dense, didn't see what was happening even tho there were many clues! ~~Urlee

I haven't used ver 7 but in ver 9 there is a dropdown list where you can see all the brushes you have. Did you put the brush from the zip file in your psp brushes folder? If so it should be in the list. Scroll until you find the Marnie9 brush. Hope this helps. Or maybe someone with 7 will be able to help you better. Deb