diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/open_ended_image_submission.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/open_ended_image_submission.py
index 39e669a357..9bafa5209d 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/open_ended_image_submission.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/open_ended_image_submission.py
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
 from boto.s3.key import Key
 from django.conf import settings
 import pickle
+import logging
+
+log=logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 TRUSTED_IMAGE_DOMAINS = [
     'wikipedia.com',
@@ -18,10 +21,10 @@ ALLOWABLE_IMAGE_SUFFIXES = [
     'gif'
 ]
 
-MAX_ALLOWED_IMAGE_DIM = 400
+MAX_ALLOWED_IMAGE_DIM = 1500
 MAX_IMAGE_DIM = 150
 MAX_COLORS_TO_COUNT = 16
-MAX_COLORS = 5
+MAX_COLORS = 20
 
 class ImageProperties(object):
     def __init__(self, image):
@@ -41,7 +44,9 @@ class ImageProperties(object):
         else:
             colors = len(colors)
 
-        return colors <= MAX_COLORS
+        too_many_colors = (colors <= MAX_COLORS)
+        log.debug("Too many colors: {0}".format(too_many_colors))
+        return too_many_colors
 
     def get_skin_ratio(self):
         im = self.image
@@ -51,10 +56,13 @@ class ImageProperties(object):
             is_okay = False
         else:
             is_okay = True
+        log.debug("Skin ratio okay: {0}".format(is_okay))
         return is_okay
 
     def run_tests(self):
         image_is_okay = self.count_colors() and self.get_skin_ratio() and not self.image_too_large
+        log.debug("Image too large: {0}".format(self.image_too_large))
+        log.debug("Image Okay: {0}".format(image_is_okay))
         return image_is_okay
 
 class URLProperties(object):
@@ -98,6 +106,10 @@ def upload_to_s3(file_to_upload, keyname):
     Returns:
         public_url: URL to access uploaded file
     '''
+    #im = Image.open(file_to_upload)
+    #out_im = cStringIO.StringIO()
+    #im.save(out_im, 'PNG')
+
     try:
         conn = S3Connection(settings.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, settings.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
         bucketname = str(settings.AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME)
@@ -107,6 +119,10 @@ def upload_to_s3(file_to_upload, keyname):
         k.key = keyname
         k.set_metadata('filename', file_to_upload.name)
         k.set_contents_from_file(file_to_upload)
+        #k.set_contents_from_string(out_im.getvalue())
+        #k.set_metadata("Content-Type", 'images/png')
+
+        k.set_acl("public-read")
         public_url = k.generate_url(60*60*24*365) # URL timeout in seconds.
 
         return True, public_url
diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/openendedchild.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/openendedchild.py
index a04a2efa87..df4a492517 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/openendedchild.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/openendedchild.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class OpenEndedChild(object):
     @staticmethod
     def sanitize_html(answer):
         try:
-            cleaner = Cleaner(style=True, links=True, add_nofollow=True, page_structure=True, safe_attrs_only=True)
+            cleaner = Cleaner(style=True, links=True, add_nofollow=False, page_structure=True, safe_attrs_only=False, allow_tags = ["img", "a"])
             clean_html = cleaner.clean_html(answer)
             clean_html = re.sub(r'</p>$', '', re.sub(r'^<p>', '', clean_html))
         except:
@@ -284,19 +284,21 @@ class OpenEndedChild(object):
         """
         success = False
         s3_public_url = ""
-
+        image_data.seek(0)
         try:
             image = Image.open(image_data)
             image_ok = open_ended_image_submission.run_image_tests(image)
+            log.debug("Image ok: {0}".format(image_ok))
             success = True
         except:
             log.exception("Could not create image and check it.")
 
-        if success:
+        if success and image_ok:
             image_key = image_data.name + datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
 
             try:
-                success, public_url = open_ended_image_submission.upload_to_s3(image_data, image_key)
+                image_data.seek(0)
+                success, s3_public_url = open_ended_image_submission.upload_to_s3(image_data, image_key)
             except:
                 success = False
                 log.exception("Could not upload image to S3.")
@@ -309,7 +311,7 @@ class OpenEndedChild(object):
         error=False
         image_tag=""
         if 'can_upload_files' in get_data:
-            file = get_data['student_file']
+            file = get_data['student_file'][0]
             success, s3_public_url = self.upload_image_to_s3(file)
             if success:
                 image_tag = self.generate_image_tag_from_url(s3_public_url, file.name)
@@ -318,7 +320,7 @@ class OpenEndedChild(object):
 
     def generate_image_tag_from_url(self, s3_public_url, image_name):
         image_template = """
-                        <img src="{0}">{1}</img>
+                        <a href="{0}">{1}</a>
                          """.format(s3_public_url, image_name)
         return image_template
 
diff --git a/lms/templates/self_assessment_prompt.html b/lms/templates/self_assessment_prompt.html
index 50f5374750..89eeb472d1 100644
--- a/lms/templates/self_assessment_prompt.html
+++ b/lms/templates/self_assessment_prompt.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     </div>
 
     <div>
-    <textarea name="answer" class="answer short-form-response" cols="70" rows="20">${previous_answer|h}</textarea>
+    <textarea name="answer" class="answer short-form-response" cols="70" rows="20">${previous_answer|n}</textarea>
     </div>
 
     <div class="open-ended-action"></div>