I've been having such adventures, getting this thing up and running. First, printer/scanner, old computer, and I were at odds. Enter Computer geek; leave $130.00. Problem solved. Then scanner reproduces images in tif. format, which this blog wouldn't accept. Several hours of futzing and figuring, and many thanks to Photoshop Elements, and here is my first image, at last. This is my first scratchboard effort. Recently I was layed up after knee surgery, and resistance weakened, I succumbed to an internet sale on scratchboard. I really enjoyed working on this little thing. The scratchboard I was using was only 4 X 6 inches, which made my thoughts turn to something small and precious. I cobbled this together working from several source photos. I think working negatively, by scratching out black to reveal white is in many ways easier than adding black to white. The process is slow, and might be tedious, if you didn't kind of focus on the Zen quality of it. Anyway, I wasn't too unhappy with this, my first effort.