Anyone using Memorex Expressit for labels?

[Dayna]

I bought some DVD Case Inserts and it came with an Expressit v. 2.2 label making software. I was having Fonts trouble with that version but everything else worked fine. I got on the memoriex website a while ago and downloaded the new version that they have for free and it is awesome except for one thing I noticed. I had a background that was a wedding background and I used Microsoft Digital Image Pro to crop an oval shape around a wedding photo of my sisters wedding to put sort of small over the wedding background. I saved it as a .png file and when I brought it over, it had a black background behind the oval shaped crop I made or if I save it as a jpg file, and bring it over, it has a white background behind it. When using the ifrst version of Expressit v 2.2, I could bring over the .png file and it looked perfect, but for some reason won't do right on the new version. Is anyone using it that may can try to see if yours does the same thing or if I could try another type of photo editing software that may would work.

[Dayna]

After talking with a tech support from Memorex, he could not give me a suggestion that would work.
So, after playing around with the buttons, I figured it out on my own. There is a little dropper at the top that you click on and then click it over the .png file you bring over and it takes the background off. So now it is working correctly.
Just thought I would mention in case anyone else has this issue.

[ahhaa]

Hi Dayna- it sounds like you had trouble with the background color layer (the digital version of the color paper you'd draw on).

GIMP is a powerful free program that works the same in Linux, Mac & Windows.
You can get it here: http://www.gimp.org/windows/

They have great tutorials too...

I hope you are only doing case inserts, and not stomping paper labels onto your DVDs. Wedding vids become more important over the long-term, and the label adhesive is not always reliable.

[Dayna]

No, I use printable DVDs most definitely. I used to use the label ones a long while back as I have a small home business, so I started using printable DVDs.
Thanks for the info!