Thanks guys. The smoke's not a big secret. Added a new layer in Photoshop 4, drew a selection of roughly the shape I wanted coming from one nostril, filled it with white and then rendered clouds. Duplicated the layer for the other nostril. Then djusted the opacity, smudged and erased with the eraser set to a soft airbrush until I got the effect I wanted. The flames are a combination of 3 flame props I made from, believe it or not, the ponytail! I used the grouping tool to select just the ponytail and mad a new prop. Then I warped the heck out of it with the wave deformer (differently for each flame. Made each one a different color and made them slightly transparent. Actually I should have gone back and made them a little more transparent, but this was a quicky to save you all from Radart! Diane