it seems you are right about the savepicture method. Here is some code I found (however, it requires an external .dll) http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb...21298&lngWId=1, that will allow you to convert a .bmp to a .jpg format, but doing this manually is going to be rough. You'll have to open the file for binary access, and then write the appropriate bytes of information to the file. If I can find a better jpeg file format resource, I could cruft up some code on this...