Hi Ralph and James, Thanks for the tips, I'll have to play around with my new tools a bit here, and see how things go. With either Sketch or GIMP I will probably have to relearn some ways of thinking. GIMP lacks the object orientedness of Photo-Paint, and Sketch is a vector editor versus a raster editor. I guess PP kind of has the "best of both worlds." However, since PP still works _okay_, and I plan to purchase Win4Lin 3.0, I can continue to use PP7 and PP9 while I learn the GIMP and Sketch. I suppose it never hurts to have more "toys," eh? <vbg> I'm going to be away from the list for a few days, but I'm glad I got this information before then. Have a great weekend! -Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============