Lighthorse: thanks for the picture.  I'm really going after more of a pen & ink look than straight sketching, but I still may have to look into this for another project I'm working on.

AsheRaven2000: Thanks for the reply.  I just said what I did about the money aspect because I didn't want to get 30 posts that all said: "It's Free!"  I like free stuff, but when it comes to my work I have a budget that I can work with and would rather pay a bit more to get the results I want.  That's why I keep shelling out the cash for Photoshop when it upgrades (not every time, and not immediately, mind you, but I do eventually upgrade).  When I started out (and my day jobs paid less than they do now), I lived off those freebie programs on the cover of 3D World and Computer Arts.  Nowadays I don't have as much time to work with all the apps that are available.

Akhbour: The plug-ins may very well be the reason I haven't gotten bit by the DS bug.  When I tried it (ages ago, I admit), it felt like such a Work In Progress that I didn't spend any time on it.  Now that I might be interested in it, when I open it there's just a feeling that there's so much missing... 

I think, from what I've heard, that I will install it (I hear 2.1 came out today) and see what it can do.

Thanks again!

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