Marc: Photoshop has to be one of the biggest con jobs of all history. It's a totally non-intuitive, poorly conceived, and user-hostile program. You can ultimately do a great deal with it, but only with an enormously painlful struggle to adapt yourself to it's ways. There have been far better designed image processing programs (Corel Photo-Paint comes to mind), but like much else in the realm of software, once the first dozen "gurus" learn a program and put their weight behind it, that's basically the end of the game, I can't help you, but I can sympathize. G. King