Darn it! Syyd's tute is getting me a '404' error each time I try to access it :( And it sounds like just what I've been searching for, too..... Do you know of any other tutes that address beginning postwork in Photoshop? Until I read this thread, I couldn't even make masks work reliably. (And the Photoshop 6 manual gives me a migraine every time I crack it!)