Hi Rozanne Welcome to SBB
when you frst download an element form this site they are zipped. That means they have to be unzipped before you can use it . See winzip on how to do this (usually you rightclick on the zipped folder and choose Extract all and it will unzip itself into a new folder of teh same name)
Once you have unzipped the element you need to save it to your hard drive and then it is in the format png. Depending on which version of PictureIt you have you may or may not have the white background. If you upgrade to DIP I can guarantee you wont but if you are still using Picture it then you will have to remove the white background from each element . You can follow this tutorial to see how ..(this tutorial is for Digital Image pro but is similar in PictureIt)
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/tutor...d-shelley.html
Hope that helps