Thanks antoon, I'm going to try and play with one of my rock pictures with some of those and see how it comes out. As for the tablet, i agree, there is no substitute for one. i myself prifer Acecad over Wacom though. I like the sirial port connection, because it doesn't tweek when you have too many USB items atached. That was a problem I kept hitting with the Wacom that I used to have. If I tried to use my negative scanner (USB) and my Walcom (I use it as a mouse) The tablet would hesetate or stop responding at times. and I was running an AMD 1100 with 1.5 Gigs of ram and 2000 Pro. -Gabe-