I tried and tried to do "Leo"s siggy but Good Golly, Oh MOLLY the new version of GIMP is nothing like the explained the directions in that Lesson 1 from 4 yrs ago. I guess my problem is the merging layers bc I could erase to make the b&w background but at the end with the erasing some of the border, nothing would happen when I tried. Anyways, I finally decided to make one of my DS. It was fairly enjoyable and I think I'm catching on... phew!