Well, XD has a bit of a steep learningcurve. If you look in my gallery, you will find that about 80% of my fractals are created in Xenodream. If you want the .xep files of any of them to study and play with, just mail me at dirk.monteny@skynet.be and I'll send them over to you. Just ask away ;-) Mind you, I'm only about a year working with XD, so I certainly don't know all the answers.