>You typed 'olImage' - that's oImage :-}
>
>IAC, it's irrelevant.

Dim loImage As System.Drawing.Bitmap = New Drawing.Bitmap(nCropWidth, nCropHeight)
>oImage = loImage.Clone
>loImage.Dispose()

is functionally identical to:

Using loImage As New Drawing.Bitmap(nCropWidth, nCropHeight)
>      oImage = loImage.Clone
>End Using

Only difference is that in the second usage loImage will be disposed even if the 'oImage=loImage.Clone' causes an exception

Thanks