Hi Rose,
I see your going to love working with textures and papers as much as I do.
Where did you save that rose texture? Did you know you could save it as a pattern in your open pattern library by Select/All (Shift+A) then Capture Pattern in the drop down menu, (click small down triangle-P6, word Pattern-P5). Or save it as a grey scale Paper by doing the same. Of course, works best with seamless images. More info on this in Help/Art Materials/Using Patterns-Paper/Capturing.

And DO watch out for those big hairy scary brushes! You know, those are really my biggest fear [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] I guess I've been blessed over the years in running Painter on Win 95', 98', & NT, with hardly any problems, But, push a slider in the brush contols too far with some brushes, and Painter will surely freeze on me.

Keep at it!
BR.....