[Swimmer]

John I figured out what I was doing wrong. On my old operating system pre- windows xp professional I would save all work to a disk. When I wanted to work on it I would just insert the disk whether it was a floppy or a cd and go to it. XP does not allow me to do that on my computor turning everything into a read only (.PSD) file once something is placed on the disk. I could brings something up from the disk and putz around with it but could never save the work back to the disk, which was the confusing part. I did things this way before because it was easier searching for the work I was doing on just one disk as opposed to looking over an entire folder for a numbered picture or clip art. After someone suggested using PICTURE IT, which i hade a 1999 version of and never reinstalled after converting to XP I once again installed it and voila I was able to work on the pic in my ADOBE program and save and decided to save it to the hard drive, not try saving it back to the disk and then using the PICTURE it I change the photo to JPEG and was successful in uploading my current avatar. What a journey. I hate asking for help or directions like most guys, much to my chagrin. I appreciate all the help from everyone.