Thanks for the input everyone. Generally what I was doing was just playing with the controls. If I could figure out how the deletion tool actually works, I'd be as good as golden but for some reason it doesn't want to work for me, either that or I'm just dumb as all heck. lol

I plan on moving up to GIMP or Photoshop as soon as I find out if my loan is coming through for college so HOPEFULLY I'll be able to have a better building tool than AutoREALM. I tried InkScape but I just didn't like the layout. It was a little jumbled for me.

Again, thanks for the input. I'm going to do what I can to apply the suggestions you've all made so hopefully I'll have something coming up soon.