Paint Shop Pro 6! LOL I was using tubes to make my images "look" 3D...for crying out loud:-) Then, I stumpled across a site that was using Poser to create psp tubes. And I started doing a search (how they do'd dat?) on how to create realistic looking people... and remember seeing the texture and interview by Curious Labs that Syyd Raven created and there was an included link to Renderosity! I was in complete awe. So basically, Syyd and Renderosity was my inspiration to Poser 4. Next, I started spending all my money buying from here and it created some kind of addiction. I learned a little about lightwave from Dan Alban and I thought I was cool because i made a snowman in lightwave and imported it into Poser. (laughing) Last year I decided to learn a powerful app. My choices where Cinema 4d, Houdini, and Maya. After researching, I decided to try to learn Maya 6 with the learning edition. It's really fun! But I don't like the watermark thingy. I hope to learn Cinema and Houdini someday.