A tablet would be great - but that wasn't what I was referring to. If you don't have Photoshop, then this may be completely useless information, but I was referring to the "pen tool" as part of the Photoshop tool bar. Have you every played around with Adobe Illustrator of Freehand? The pen tool is kinda a tool used with vector- graphic applications, but embedded into Photoshop. (if you're not familiar, a "vector graphic" is a graphic that is comprised more of computer information rather than pixels - in other words....with a pixel-based application a circle is created with a group of pixels clumped into a ball that resembles a circle - the higher the resolution of the file, the finer the image of a circle is...but it's comprised of blocks. With a "vector" illustration, the computer looks at the mathematical equations of points placed around what will become a circle and draws the image mathematically - meaning that you can take that image and resize it to whatever size you want, and the initial file is very small. The "Pen Tool" in Photoshop borrows that capability and applies it to a raster (pixel-created) image. The kicker is - the outline that you create with the pen tool maintains its "vector" quality - so if you do your outline with the pen tool, and then resize your image - you outline path reflects the size change without degradation (because it's vector!) I know - all of this is as clear as mud - IM me and I will explain a bit better Wolf