You gotta tell me how to clear-up the smudges around my words. Any advice?
Mr. Biggs, the smudges are caused by saving in jpeg format with quality set too low. jpeg compression is a "lossy" format, and any sharp contrasts between dark and light (such as black text on a white background) will have pixels around the border in various shades between the two colors -- gray, in this case. I presume you made the images as bitmaps originally, then converted to jpegs. See if there's an option for "Quality" in the file save dialog. If so, set it to 100% or close to it, and the smudges will stop. The files will be somewhat larger, but that's the trade-off. When using jpeg format for, say, a color photograph, you can get away with setting the quality much lower.
Robert Frazier