"The best demonstration of jpg problems in my opinion is to just try and save a page with black text on white bottom. You must look really hard for something that looks more ugly. ;)" Exactly. Ban the jpgs on the source at least.It's a poor excuse for a original art source. I do a lot of art and I'm constanly running into jpg problems because I'm in the middle of the assembly line or more toward the end and other people in front of me do not understand what the hell there doing. Jpg's are good for the web for browsers but that's where it ends. Art need to be lossless. See I think your texture is just like the black and white text. It's the same sort of blocky texture only it's color. Jpg cannot do that type of image. Gif would be better or 24 bit bmp being the best. TGA are just fine to and also support RLE better than bmps. Oh and the new XnView compresses 32 bit tga files now with RLE on all the channels even the 8 bit alpha channel. Times have changed and we got JPG2000 now to we just need more companies like E-On to support that file format.