Thank you everyone, HK, todd71,mateo for all your help. I'll give these suggestions a try. The Photoshop script is intersting to me. I've always wanted to learn more about automating Photoshop. HK, can you direct me to a site on scripting tips for Photoshop? Mateo, thanks for the rainbow tidbits. I'm working on a 3d library of Alaskan fish, maybe animals, if I can take enough time out from the rest of my busy life to model them all. Would an animated gif work in Flash? I'm also on a Mac and I can create animated gifs with GifBuilder, they come out ok for web work, but I want to create TV quality movies in Flash, for short video clips of maps with trout, salmon, etc. moving on maps... Anyway, thanks for the help. On a personal note, I just heard I might get a side job driving a pick-up truck from Anchorage, AK (where I live - just outside of Anchorage in a town called Eagle River) to the North Slope. All along the beautiful drive are fishing rivers and streams full of rainbow trout and grayling. Also bears, moose, caribou, all almost every wild Alaskan animal you can imagine dot the tundra. I'll be taking my video camera for home movies and reference images.

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