Hey Lee, I'm a sometime subscriber to your site - it's been a while though. To answer your rip question, when I do my works, the only way I've found that is satisfactory is to create custom trans maps AND accompanying custom textures. And actually I've gotten some good effects that way. It takes quite a bit of work though. You can see an example of how I've handled it here (a few pages into the mini comic) - http://www.geocities.com/shulkophile/ (the images are linked at the bottom), and more at my yahoo group linked off that page. The jeans and the singlet top in those images have no post work on them at any point - they both carry custom textures and trans maps that I made (the jeans used Eowyn's jeans textures for the V3 catsuit as the base, but as you can see there's been a lot of editing). Let me know if this resembles anything you're working toward - and if it does, maybe you can hook me up with a free membership ;) - or if you'd like to discuss it further. Unzipped