I use Canvas, by Deneba Here's why: Takes photoshop plugins Great painting environment, probably 90%+ of PS. But also: full-blown vector graphic "side". A beautiful facility for making animated gifs. Imports and saves out to many many formats including PS and Flash, .pdf also and .avi/.mov (quicktime) for animations. Terific for page layout. Imagemapping for HTML? You will be in heaven with Canvas. (Attach URLs to objects, Canvas generates full webpage with style sheets, and also calculates coordinates for imagemaping!) For painting, naturally it has sized and custom brushes, airbrushes, sharpen, blur, desaturate, and many other PS-like features too numerous to list. And yes, it has that tool Dr. Geep was looking for (see next post) review: http://www.keystonemac.com/canvas9review.html Mac and Win Price? Canvas 9 $349 at mfg www.deneba.com Canvas 8 street price as low as $199 You can find Canvas 7 even lower. Trial and academic versions avail. ::::: Opera :::::