Hi Trina - what format are you making your thumbs in? I've never seen an alert that said that my thumb's dimensions were too big. I always upload .jpg's at either 200x150 or 200x200. I think it says somewhere that those are the max dimensions. I have, however, been alerted that my FILE size for a thumb was too large and had to re-make the thumb with a little higher compression so as to get it in just under the 15kb limit. I use absolutely the least amount of compression on jpg thumbs that I can get away with to keep it from being blurry and the absolute minimum for the full size, 800x600 or 700x700 image. Paintshop Pro7 is what I use to make my thumbs and to convert my bitmap images to .jpg for posting - works great and is really easy to use. I, many times, will also apply the "sharpen" filter to my thumbs with PSP - first impressions and all that! You have to compress the thumb more when you do that, though, as it markedly increases the file size. Rick