Hi Mpaige

If it does not need to expand out then the layer method will take ages as you will need a new layer for each picture. i would suggest you use the utilities ( or rt click to get it ) webproperties>pop up photo> click settings alter pop up size as need click options look at popup options and tick all the top 3 boxes this will apply for all pics in the website. You can then download the highslide teaks from the top of this forum. unzip. the go to designs gallery >disc designs. locate the highslide tweaks folder when you have loaded it it will appear at the bottom of all the other designs in the gallery. Then open this up and drag the pop up to centre icon to the paste board (area off the page and repeat on all the pages where the effect is needed i usually select arrange > repeat on all pages as default. Also you can drag colour of the back ground tweak to change it and the intensity tweak plus others to the paste board if you wish although I prefer the auto pop up xara setting to darken to like istock does to approx 75% of the browser.

This method will be much faster and will work whether you select the photo directly to pop up or drop it first into a photo frame from the designs galllery then pop up ( webtemplates>photo objects). Be sure that once you have dragged the photo object into the website that first you go to webproperties and remove the link to xara click do nothing apply and close before you drag and drop a picture into it.

have a play

Scruffy