Well, I've been playing with Canvas again and I've figured out how to do those 'freehand' shaped fills. Still haven't found out how, or indeed IF, I can do those scruffy-edged vector lines with it though (but I'm still giving it a thrashing).

I've found some really cool spline-editing tools in it though. The only vector program I used to use was TurboCAD-PRO5, but that's old now - and not a patch on this thing.

Gog, thanks for that. It looks awesome, and I've sort of 99% decided to buy the high-end version no matter what. The remaining 1% uncertainty is caused by their demo gallery. I'm wondering why 'everything' in the gallery is in Black&White. I can't imagine why they'd force the program to work in grayscale only, so I'll have to look into that.

Oh yeah - I had to laugh; It says over 1GIG for the download version, and a fast connection is recommended.

...lol - looks like a boxed version would be wise then 'cos I ain't waiting for that ;-)

Ray, I haven't a clue 'bout half of what you just told me, but thanks for the info ;-)

I just tend to leave anything web related to some trusted friends. I've been told it's not wise to use stuff which requires a browser plugin - if you want the maximum number of people to be able to access your website without problems. I understand your excitement with all that stuff though, because it's designed to make for better web experiences and such. For me though, if I get the option of trusty HTML/PHP or a fancy plugin - I'd choose to go for HTML/PHP on the grounds of availability.

Now, where was I...
Oh yeah, B&W MangaStudio gallery - I wonder why it's awesome but colourless?

The wait can be horrific, but the outcome can be worse - pumeco 2006