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

Thanks Deb LOL I got the black background by NOT being able to follow directions. The tut said add a black layer and then use that effect (slat) as part of the text but I added it to the picture and liked the effect. Clear as mud eh. Added my name after I finished the picture part. Sue :)

Bev, please forgive me for not getting back sooner, I've had my kids and grandkids here ALL day lol. I just now loaded a photo and tried it, it takes the white out and also makes the image look like a clear transfer. I used a picture that had a white wall background in it. In my photo you can see where the wall is and the rest of the items, but through all of it you can see the background (you know the gray and white squares?). It really does look like a tee shirt transfer, wonder if it would work for one??? I used it on black and white clip art and it works great for taking out the white and leaving a black outline. Hope that helps.

Here is a screenshot of the page you get after clicking generate html code (at the bottom of the page where your images are located.) I hi-lited what you need to copy then paste into your message. I haven't used Photo Bucket in so long it has changed, it used to be much easier. I hope I got this right, if someone else can explain it better, please jump right in!!!!! Carol Here is a link that might be useful: photo Bucket help