I suspect you cannot see the images because the path you stored in the FileName property does not exist? This is a problem I told you about on another post related to same project. When I ran your project, there were no images, so I had to manually paste a path & filename into the usercontrol's FileName property. Only then did they show. Storing paths & trying to load from them is not a good idea. The project will only work if the user has the same path on their computer & also have the same images in those paths.