The web is such a strange venue. so much exposure to possible 'customers', and one would think that: more exposure = more possible sales. but purchasing art is a strange world altogether. Even getting in a real 'physical' gallery does not gaurantee sales. Anymore, it's not even necessarily the art that sells, but the marketing. IMO, any 'successful' artist is that way because they've taken the time to market themselves appropriately. I think it's almost harder to do that on the web than in the real world - even given the massive exposure (or maybe BECAUSE of massive exposure). I'd be a bit wary offering anything up for free. It's a nice sentiment and all, but if you get into a collectors market (and that's where you'll make the $$$), it could work agianst you - at least in the instance of that particular image - and at most against you entire body of work. If you could work the free thing into some kind of marketing strategy, like the first 20 downloads are free, then you charge, or something like that, I dunno. -once the market is saturated with your 'free' images, it will be harder place a value later if you decide you actually want to make money. sorry, just my two cents. I started out selling my work (murals, designs, etc.) VERY cheap. word got around. and that's what people expected. A Difficult mould to break. Good luck =) and take care