I thank everyone who's replied constructively to my request for information regarding recommended reading. Thank you very much. As for the rest of you, I'm disgusted that for a simple slip of the tongue I get pounced on. I'm sorry that I'm so casual and informal is a simple web forum. Perhaps I should wrote in academic standards with footnotes just so I'm not misunderstood? Having recently spent over $400 for the education versions of the software in the adobe web design collection, I'm outraged that my very first post in the photoshop forum is met with accusations of piracy and thievery. Manticore