I'm kinda unsure on the whole thing.MetaCreations pushed out Carrara in a hurry. I picked it up for $99 as the upgrade for Ray Dream Studio. The manual has certain items, like being able to work with photoshop filters that were supposed to be taken care of in the future. I am truly starting to think Meta is just a "shark" company and should be dealt with as such. Amazing how they shed their name to lose whomever in the wake of the uproar over all this. If I remember correctly they also made a statement to the press INCLUDING MacWorld that Carrara was sold to Adobe, along with Canoma. Naturally, Adobe emphatically denies everything. If that is'nt phony and misleading, what is?