Thanks EB, good to hear that the channel is respected in gimp and paint shop. This means it is Canvas which is the issue. I'm going to look for a setting or a forum post about it.

I have been using Canvas for more than 15 years! It is a fantastic paint AND vector program.

By the way, I downloaded Gimp and installed it.....no icon appeared on my desktop for a launcher, and searching high and low in the folders it installed I could not figure out how to launch the program!

:: og ::