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Hey Fred,
If you are just trying to see the picture as reference to build your model- why not just open it in a viewer and position it somewhere on the screen over top of Solidworks.
Assuming you are using one of the Windows OSs, you can download a utility that will allow you to keep the picture viewing software window "always on top" of your application stack.
Not a solution within Solidworks but may work for you even better.