paying for artwork: our 2nd CD used a painting from the 1840's, and we paid $$$$ to the owners of the painting (it was on loan to a museum at the time)Payment was made through the museum, so I presume copyrights are extended to owners of historic artwork.

Hesp, no one has mentioned it, but there is a simple free CD graphics program called MediaFace II that does everything you have mentioned. It's put out by Neato, the CD labeling company. I don't use their products, I just use this free program, and I liked it so much I used it for our last CD. Automatically resizes imported graphics, and is really quite a sophisticated program for free! I use Paintshop Pro to get my graphics the way I want them and then import them to this program. I used it to design front cover, inside cover, CD label and cassette J-card.

Robin