Thank you for your warm welcomes. I'm getting my feet wet moving around the site. Dianne, here's my first question if you could quickly answer..... 500x500 - I usually work in DPI's. What's an easy way to figure out the file size from like 500x500? I thought my original was within the boundaries, but it came up file too big When I shrunk it smaller, as you can see; there is a white border which I don't want. I have Photo Impact at the moment and I can set up my workspace to 500x500, so should I do that and bring in my original image and save it at that size and see if it fits the whole avatar area? TIA