Thanks guys, I just found what the problem was. Brain dead I guess from too much work and trying to do something late at night. I forgot all about the quality settings on the save screen. It does default to the lowest setting and for reasons unknown to me and probably anyone else, I neglected to change that setting to high quality. Thanks for the tips guys. Just read this message after I checked what I was doing when saving an image and you were right about the quality settings on the save screen. Cherokee