drat! :( oh, wait, that's not what i meant. in the terrain editor is a special copy and paste button. you know, to copy the elevation map and paste it into your image editing program, then past it back into your work. use those buttons IN the editor, not the ctrl-c or the menu copy/paste. thanks. :) i just tried it again, and now it tells me after i copy that i'm trying to paste in something that is the wrong size or colour mode and to use 'picture' to import it. plus, there is nothing in the clipboard when i try to paste it into photoshop.