title: Why are my pygame images not loading?
body: <p>I found a tutorial online (on Youtube) and it showed me the basics of creating a game with pygame. i found images of the kind he said and what he had. he didn't say where to save them to, i think that may be my problem. here, this is an example of what i have in my program and what shows up on the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>bif="bg.jpg"
  mif="images.png"
  
  import pygame, sys
  from pygame.locals import *
  
  pygame.init()
  screen=pygame.display.set_mode((420,315),0,32)
  
  backround=pygame.image.load(bif).convert()
  mouse_c=pygame.image.load(mif).convert_alpha()
  
  while True:
      for event in pygame.event.get():
          if event.type == QUIT:
              pygame.quit()
              sys.exit()
  
      screen.blit(backround, (0,0))
  
      x,y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
      x -= mouse_c.get_width()/2
      y -+ mouse_c.get_height()/2
  
      screen.blit(mouse_c, (x,y))
  
      pygame.display.update()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the error reads:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File "C:/Python26/pygame.games/pygame
  1", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;
      backround=pygame.image.load(bif).convert()
  error: Couldn't open bg.jpg
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>please respond as soon as possible.</p>