hmm, well i have one 500*600 picture and then one 425*425 picture overlapping.

This could possibly create 20000K?

If it is nothing to worry abut then cool. Out of curiosity, what happens if there is 5 MB of free memory and my app comes along trying to dump 20000 into mem? Does the difference get swapped out or does the app simply not load?

I wouldn't know, I have bags of memory