[Durt]

Ron -
I'm not familiar with Paint Shop, but my wife (the techhie in this house,) says it's a great program.
Are you starting with hi-res pictures? Most of the images I download from my camera are enormous & I just hit the 'Image' tool and then 'resize image,' enter an arbitrary size like 5"x7" and save as a jpeg.
Beyond that, neither one of us could figure out why your image quality would degenerate.
Remember - computers are your friend. I say that to myself every time my edit system crashes & I lose a day's worth of work because the auto-save didn't auto save.

Durt