barkley

Good idea. I re-opened it in Paint, its great. Opened it with MS Photo Editor, its great. So far so good. I think you hit the nail on the head. My adobe is an old lousy edition, which is why I'm really excited to use Paint. Buzzkill and BarkBark, thank you both very much for all your help. It is wonderful that you two experts would take the time to help a n00b like me on this. ETA--the problem is still there when I try and put the new image in FrontPage. I'm guessing it is a .PNG / FP compatibility issue? ETA2--changed file format to .GIF, works great with FP. You guys rule. Can't thank you enough.

Opened as a .PNG, added a layer (added text), flattened it, and saved as .PNG Same result--no text and black background. :?:

Yes. The original images is a .PNG, and it does show the transparency (grey and white checkerboard). Its the first image I've worked with that shows this checkerboard. Thank you very much!

Yes, I do see the grey and white checkerboard. Buzzkill, as you can tell I'm very new to this. I really appreciate your help. Thank you

thanks buzzkill i must be doin something wrong still. i followed your excellent advice (i did not know about "flatten"), but I still get a black background w/o text. any other ideas? thank you very much.

Sorry for posting such a simple question--I spent the last 30 minutes searching the forum with no luck. I just downloaded Paint.net V3.0 today. I'm (obviously ) not a graphics wiz, but need to be able to take a TIFF or JPEG image, add text to it, and save it in one of those formats. I've tried numerous times, and it always looks good in the program...I save it...then re-open the file in another program (like Adobe). The background goes from white to black, and the black text I added does not show. I know its a stupid question, but I'm quite frustrated. Can anyone kindly point this n00b to a tutorial, or tell me (as kindly as you can) what I'm doing wrong? Thank you for your time.