Imagine that...artists are pretentious, who would have thought LOL (ok...sarcasm mode off) Welcome to the world of art though. I had the same bashing by my peers (and "friends") when I ventured away from traditional media (oil paints) and started exploring "Computer assisted art" (as they called it....mind you I never had a computer actually 'assist" me in anything, i usually have to fight it to get what I want LOL). Artists have always believed that what they do is art, and if someone does something different (or uses different tools) then it is no longer art. Which is a ridiculous notion, but it has always been around. I think deep down it is a fear that if someone can do something as nice or nicer than they can, and has a "better" way of getting the result, then they may be seen as less of an artist because of it. But in the end, it is always the artist and not the tools that makes the art....and anyone who thinks different is speaking through their own over inflated ego. Rawn