Oh wow. Totally by accident. I'd been illustrating with an airbrush for years and was being driven slowly insane by cutting masks and friskets. I'd gotten Photoshop to "touch up" some images and was really a computer beginner. You know how once you get a computer, you start getting all the computer catalogs. I saw a plug-in for Photoshop from Metacreations (Kai PowerTools 3) ordered it and started getting propaganda from MC. Ray Dream Studio 3.0 was $99 bucks or something like that. So, I thought "What have I got to loose?" I fell in love. I have now killed off more brain cells between my computer and software than I ever lost to toxic paint fumes and maddening tedium. My workstation sits next to a lonely drafting board and seldom used rapidiographs now. I wouldn't go back though. :) Mark