Eric: I would be interested in knowing how you get the colors of an image to show in the dropper off the color button ( I believe this is in the shader room). Do you load the image as a background, backdrop image? Is this somewhere in the preferences? When I do it , the colors that show up in the dropper off the color button are the same or similar to the ones that show up in the color mixer option of the color picker. Am I misunderstanding what you wrote? Thanks, FM