Thanks for all your input. Perhaps the picture degradation was due to the fact the Comic Life was an older version--1.3.6. It is also a trial version. I am opting for one of the comic book template programs since I don't have the budget for Photoshop at this point... I had tried Comic Book Creator, which I felt was better than Comic Life, esp for picture degradation, but like I said, the support doesn't seem to be there, and I am not sure what the best format is to upload strips to, and to what sites. Here I show you the difference between the original PNG and its rendition in Comic Life...which was a half page image in CL.