Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to get Carrera now. I have a feeling that Adobe will doing some sort of software link to photoshop with Carrera. As far as the plug-ins, your right, I'm sure Adobe will in time introduce a whole slew of stuff. Eventally, a complete new version of Carrera will probably be kind of pricey. (with all the add-ons and plug-ins, etc.)I think for the first time I will get in on the ground floor and ride the wave. Knowing Adobe, I believe, now that Photoshop is more or less and industry standard for image manipulation, I'm hoping that maybe the same may eventually happen to Carrera at the low end level.