Hey! welcome to the party ^ .^ a followup on a responce to your question: > 1. How can I make my own gradients? Documentation makes a note that > its compatible with some older fractal program... I don't have this > program. In the future could it make/save gradients similar to > photoshop? As an artist I would like to work with specific palettes i have at least three different programs for making the .map file 'scope uses, and link to all of them are in the Resource section of the journal at http://chaoscopers.deviantart.com/ the first one, makemap, uses a grid system to allow you to choose up to 256 random colors, to blend, and some more mathmatical ways of doing so. Apomap, which is the third link, uses levles of red/blue/green manipulated by lines (rather fun) and the Flnt map is a sorta combination of both, which i havn't played with much have fun ^ .^ ~Kaze