Well it all sounds very fair to me Agentsmith. Would love to know which this contest site is? ;-) Also I save most of my images at about 50%-65% JPG without much distortion and affecting the picture quality (all my posts in fact!) and with various colors and with a lot of variation as well. So anything saved in terms of Kbs when posting an image definitely helps..specially us poor dial up folks! And if the challenge continues to grow...I shudder to think how I'd vote with my modem connection trying to compete with Bryce's rendering for speed! :-P