Ok my question about BitBlt is this: i am making a program that when a user clicks a command button the image from a small picture box (picture2) is bitblted to a larger picture box (picture1). It is working fine, but i do not want picture2 containing the smaller image to be visible to the user. Is this possible? When i make it invisible it gives me the background of the form, and when i move the picture2 out of the visible area of the form it bitblts the stuff behind the form. thanks