Thank you Joy...I have them saved and am even starting to use them - I'll post my first "masterpiece" ...LOL

You can see my picture of the Maltese puppy above. I continued to play with it, by adding spruce, gifts and snow picture tubes. When I was finished, I saved it to jpeg. It wasn't until I tried to email the picture to my sister that I realized the file size had grown to 612kb, with the additional picture tubes. Is this normal for a file size to increase with the addition of picture tubes or is there a step I missed? Until just recently, I used PSP 8 only for editing my pictures and knew little about the programs other functions such as layers, masks etc., so I hope my question doensn't sound too ridiculous. Judy

I quickly jotted this down taking for granted you know what Tools I am talking about, plus know where I mean when I say Layer Palette. If confused, ask for further explanation. There may be other ways of doing this but, hope this works. 1. Open your Graphic in PSP7. 2. With the Preset Tool on Ellipse, draw around the part you want. 3. Right click layer 1 of the layer palette and click convert to Raster Layer. 4. With the Magic Wand Tool, click on area inside of circle you made. 5. Click on background layer in Layer Palette to highlight. 6. If want a soft edge, go up to Selections, down to Modify, over to Feather, click and choose 7, OK. 7. Go up to Edit, down to Copy to click on. 8. Right click on empty space of your work area and choose Paste As New Image. Now you can open a blank image the size and color of your choice to paste that graphic on.

Auntjen, I hear ya. I live in Miami, which because of the transient nature of the population and the relatively short history of the area being inhabited is extremely unlikely to toss up antique/classic furniture or old forgotten treasures from the attic (heck we don't even HAVE attics). My CL leans extremely heavily to very cheap cardboard furniture and Rooms To Go bedding/upholstered pieces that somebody got when they moved here 2 years ago and is now unloading as they move somewhere else. Interspersed with the occasional Ethan Allen or Bernhardt pieces that somebody bought when they moved here 2 years ago and now wants to sell for the same price minus a hundred bucks or so now that they are moving out... Wonder if anyone ever has done or could do a study on what kinds of furniture turns up in different regions of the country? I suspect, on no evidence whatsoever, that people in the Northeast-New England area have the best CL pickin', but I'd be interested to know if that is so or not. Ann