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You don't have enough RAM. ADPro can indeed handle pretty big images, but you need a boatload of RAM to handle them. For any image A x B pixels in size, the amount of memory you need is A times B times 4 bytes, of contiguous FAST ram. In addition, ADPro itself is running in fast RAM, so practically speaking, with 2MB of Fast RAM, you can usually just barely load a 640 x 400 image. (Or possibly not quite be able to load an image of that size, since ADPro may have grown since I upgraded from 2MB Fast to 4MB Fast, back in the days of ADPro 1.x…) There are a lot of possible solutions to this. There are several PD programs which can scale images down a bit: This may be necessary to load into ADPro. Or you could add more RAM. Or, if you have enough RAM but have a lot of other programs running, close them. In the long run, I recommend more RAM. With 4MB of FAST ram, I've had no trouble loading most images which fall my way, although I rarely see anything over 800 x 600. A 1024 x 768 GIF might push it a bit, though. –>Steve Bennett P.S. To ASDG, if you're reading this, a wonderful feature to add to ADPro which I always wanted before I bought more memory would be a Scale on Load so one could shrink an image to fit available memory at load time… P.P.S To Black Belt Systems, I always wanted this feature in IP/Imagemaster, too… <grin>