Hi Cynlee, Thanks for the advice but I didnt convert to greyscale. Everytime i have tried that on other stuff, i lost all color and couldnt get it back so i quit attempting it. I am very basic with what i can use in photoshop. It took me way over a year befoe i could even do a basic layer lol. Someone finally told me i had to change the background layer name to anything other than background. In this case all i did with the skull was paint out the background, desaturate the image and saved it. Then i was going to add amother layer with the color intact and blend the two but as soon as i moved the new layer onto the old, it turned black and white also. Even after saving and renaming and then reopening , anything with color i tried to add became b&w. Lee