'I hate having to turn IK off all the time! Life is too short for that' Exactly. That's why all the figures I use frequently have had their channels renamed to 'inkyChain rightLegg'. That stops poser from using IK at all. Of course, if you do want to use it (which I never do), you have to re-hack the cr2. 'so you should also have a pose file that turns 'em on' Yep. That's why I said "If you want to switch it on, change all 4 'off' lines to 'on'" Karen, I'm pretty unkeen on menus myself, so I do everything with the keyboard. As soon as you press ALT, the menu shortcut letter will be underlined. It doesn't take long to learn them. For example... alt-f-e-i = export image alt-f-i-w = import obj file alt-f-i-b = import background pic and so on... I use the kb over the mouse every chance I get. mac