I've seen photographers carve eachother up with solarizing filters over this issue. :) I had another fun one come up in the same vein and I mean to find that posting and HTMLize it into a test, too. Someone asserted that "every time you compress/recompress a JPEG the quality goes down" - so, I took a file and compressed it in Irfanview, then Photoshop, then CJPEG/DJPEG, in a loop 10 times and monitored what happened to the file size. Not to anyone's surprise, the file size hovered at about the same point for the entire experiment. I printed the results on my calibrated printer as well as examining the output perceptively. I couldn't tell the images apart nor could any of the dozen or so people I've showed the prints to. The experiment ended when I lost track of which print was which. Maybe we need a "photography myth busters" huh? ;) mjr.