I tried using the image as a gel, but it distorted what I could see, and some of the image I could not see. I increased the width, but when I applied it to the transparancy channel, it did nothing. I used blend transparancy, but it made my test object invisible, when I increased the transparancy. perhaps I'm creating my image incorrectly. is there anything I need to know about the image I am attempting to apply to my object(properties...etc)?