I found the info and will paste at the end of this post but the picture can be pretty big. salbwil just tell us what program you are using to resize and right click on the picture and click properties on the drop down menu and tell us what size it is. Here are the posting instructions from the webmaster at hearth.com: OK, so hereÂs the deal - your member photos (in your member profile) is limited to a small size - about 150 pixels (dots) square. The little Avatar next to your posts is limited to the same or maybe 100 each way..... Regular pictures, like in this forum, can be fairly large - almost full screen (1000 wide by 1000 high) and up to 200KB (200,000 bytes). But, many folks donÂt know the basics of email and web pics - IÂll try to explain. Pictures sent to the web and by email are best at what is called "screen resolution" meaning that they somewhat match the size od the dots on our monitors. For our purposes, this is aout 72 DPI (or dots per inch)..... What the average person needs is an "Image Management Program" and NOT the one that comes with Windows! If you are a PC user, download the free program called Picasa - This will organize and store all the photos on your disk and also allow you to export smaller copies (for web, etc.) and to even fix the photos up a bit! Apple users already have an image management program, iPhoto, which comes with every mac. To prepare web photos in iPhoto, simply select the photo or photos, go to Export (or it might say Share in newer versions) and when the dialog box comes up use the part that says "scale no bigger than" to select what you want the size of the exported photo to be. For purposes of this board, a photo with a width of 400-700 is ideal. Now, with Picasa, it is pretty much the same thing. Select the photo or photos and go to Export to Folder- the box shown in the picture below will come up and then you can select the picture size - say 480 wide as in this example. The other slider will compress the file size so the picture loads faster. In most cases, anything over 50% is good. If you want to learn more about this stuff, dig around on the links at: http://www.hearth.com/hcc/ - these are links from a course I teach at night school. If you are a user of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, use the "Image Size" dialog bx to convert your photo to 72 DPI and approx. 400-600 pixels wide (the height will work out automatically) - then use "Save for Web" and tryjpg "medium", file size should be really small. Of course, donÂt save changes to the original picture since you still want that big on your computer and for yourarhiving and storage.

Linda I can't help you with your problem - but I use Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Anniversary Edition. It is the latest and last version of the Picture It software. It will have lots more bells and whistles than just Picture It, but the heart of the program is the same. It is a powerful photo editor, but easy to use. It can make cards, caledar pages, scrapbook pages, etc and do some awesome photo editing. Microsoft has decided to discontinue its photo editing software - but you can still find it on eBay and Amazon. Be sure to get the Anniversary Edition, as it will be Vista compatable if you ever upgrade your computer. There are some great tutorials online for this software if you decide to get it. One site actually starts with the Picture It software in its tutorials. Back to your problem. If you "Google" your error word for word, sometimes you can find a solution. Try posting the exact error message here - or even better, a screen shot of the message. Good luck! I have added a link to a page that is all about Picture It! and its later versions Digital Image Pro and Digital Image Suite Here is a link that might be useful: Proud To Use Picture It! by Mary's Graphics

When I got my new computer last year (XP/sp2) I had read here about using a program included in asseccories called "Program Compatibility Wizard". I also wanted my old program "Picture It 2000" (still love and use it alot) on my new machine so instead of insalling via just the CD I went through the "PCW" and didn't have a problem at all. It works like a charm and infact better then on my old XP computer because of the extra ram my new one has :o) I don't know if Vista has "PCW" so hopefully your running XP and that should work for you.

If you are going to try this, please do so on a duplicate of a photo or one that you donÂt mind throwing out, rather than an original. I had to go through a few before it actually worked. I placed a drop of the cocoa butter cream on a laminated surface (so that the cream does not get absorbed) and then rubbed the pencil into the cream to make like a color paste. I used a Q-tip to apply very little and very carefully to the areas that I wanted painted. I used photo-friendly color pencils but wonder if any pencils can be used this way, donÂt knowÂthat will be next monthÂs experiment, LOLÂ I hope that you can see the picture attached. ItÂs a little blurry as this is a photo of a photo of a picture..but I think you can appreciate the colors. BTW I saw somewhere on the web that other people had used petroleum jelly. I didnÂt try this as I thought it would be too messy. Then, when I was ready to give up, I gave the cocoa butter a shot. Enjoy http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii262/annabell40/?action=view&current=BikePhoto.jpg