drgndog, Corel is a little easier to manage. Resizing photo, cropping, adding and editing text, changing fonts, changing font color, adding outline to font. doing all this and then saving as jpg, bmp, and leaves the original intact which can be edited again if needed. It's a pity I am not nearby, cos I would tutor in heart beat with my limited knowledge to get you started. I have Corel 12 and am not sure if you could open from my work. Tell you what we can try, PM your email address and I will send you something I have done with a little description of what to select, and we can see if you can access the file? yes? cheers, Bill PS, my father was from Portland, lived in Gresham as well.