Well, number one. If you going to be doing any work to the file you shouldn't be doing it in the orignial GIF or JPG file, because you be limited in many ways, plus saving just isn't very realistic for many reasons. So what you should be doing is opening a new Photshop image at the rize dimensions for your work, then copy the first image and paste it into the BLANK DOCUMENT. Then copy your second image and place it in the BLANK DOCUMENT. Photoshop will automatically create a new layer everytime you paste a new image in it. However, I'm guessing you've figured that out by now considering that this post is 3 days old, but just a little advice in case you haven't. Devin Taylor Thinking Allowed Graphics