I think I'm dead in the water on this. I greatly appreciate your percistance. :>)))) See next two threads for pics. I just did yet another bunch of tests in Illustrator. (including rasterizing before exporting) Then I did One test in Photoshop. (dragging my flowers over to Photoshop) All Illustrator tests failed showing seams. Photoshop had success no seams. But I can create and more importantly edit far better in Illustrator. Doing it in Photoshop is harder. Maybe thats just me. (I'm going to recreate this in Photoshop & see how it goes). But to explain things a bit more... To go from my 1st image/attachment to a Trans map in Illustrator is extremely easy & gives vector-sharp results. And if my gradient is to high or low or to dark or light... Adjustment is a snap. All I have to do is drag my sliders one way or the other. I'm thinking Photoshop will not be so easy. I can create this in Photoshop just future adjustment of it is tuffer for me. Again I'm days away from giving PSD a valiant effort. Thanks again! Scott