thanks for the suggestion. Tried to attach one of the converted images that I can't open with Windows, and got "the extension 2 is not allowed." I'm starting to think this project may be over my head. I converted all of the scanned prints to jpegs to make them smaller and I'm just going to load them like they are. Most are ok, but those that are not in 4:3 display poorly, but seems I can't fix that. thanks again.