aprilrosanina, I noticed you said: "Now, your image map node should have a picture of a plug in the upper right hand corner. Left-click and hold on this, and draw the mouse to the picture of a socket on the "main" node - you want the one that says "Diffuse color". " My image map node doesn't have a plug in the upper right. It has a plug in the upper left that I can draw to a socket in the main node. am I doing something wrong?