Oh my.....where do I begin!? I just found your site this evening and I believe i've been sitting here browsing for something like 4 hours......LOL. I am an avid traditional scrapbooker and have been for over 6 years. There are some amazing things going on here in the CG layout world!!! I happened to get Photoshop Elements on the advice of the camera store where I just recently purchased my first digital camera. I got a Nikon D100 and bought a Canon S9000 13 x 19 printer thinking that I would have more versatility for printing my own pictures to use with my scrapbooking and even went and got a new puter so that I wouldn't have to share with my 11 yr old son. I had mentioned to dh that I wanted some scrapbooking programs for x-mas maybe after I learned how to use all my other new toys. As I started learning to play with my photos in PE I began realizing that I could actually do layouts there. I started working on a layout today earlier but gave up after a several hours of trial by error...lol...and went in search of advice. Looks like maybe I've found just the place to get it! I am proud to say that I had the settings for my 12 x 12 set up correctly with the 300 dpi and I started working with the layers. I hope to share something from PE soon. It looks like Photoshop Elements is commonly used here. Are there some major differences between it and the full blown Photoshop that I might have preferred? Do any of you have a camera or printer like mine? I found it interesting in reading some of the posts that you can take a CD of a layout into a photo developer and get a large format layout printed for you....I never really thought about doing that. I really am kind of computer/camera/printer illiterate so any advice I receive will be soooooo very much appreciated! I'm looking forward to making some new friends here. I'm blown away by all of your talent!!! ~Christina~ P.S. can we print the tutorials???