maura, also one thing i do is if i see a cool section of a picture i've taken, like the dale chihuly ceiling at the bellagio, i use that as a background. you can crop a section of a picture, like some pretty flowers, or the beach, or i even did ones of just the blue water of the pool at dougs moms, and the beach sand from when we got married, and resave it as a picture, then just drag and drop and set as the background canvas. morgan even suggested to set the opacity (like a watermark picture) at 72%, it looks really cool.