Thanks! I've been critisized in the past for not having anything but dragons, though. Some people seem to think I need to... "expand my horizons" as one person put it. But I'm happy with my Dragons. They're the only thing I'm really interested in drawing.

Attached Link: http://ebon-dragon.com/pages/Celebration.html

Well, here's the finished (for now...) picture. I'm still not totally sastified with it, but I think it looks good. I also thing the addittion of the little Dragon watching makes the picture more complete and gives the larger Dragon an excuse for settng off the fireworks.

Attached Link: http://ebon-dragon.com/images/Work_In_Progress2.jpg

Okay, using Susie's suggestion this is what I've got so far. It's still rather rough (hate the way the shadows look so far, but it gives you the basic idea...) but it's close to what I'm looking for. Any suggestions?

Thanks! I'll give that a try myself :]

Honey... you'd never survive it wink

A friend of mine called me in a panic about this very thing. All of her brush settings went to the little dot and nothing she tried fixed it. She was afraid she'd have to re-install Photoshop and all of her plug-ins. When I told her to check her "caps lock" the scream of "D'oh!" was deafening :} This is something we all experience at least once. I found out how to fix it with a "keyboard shortcut" guide that came with a copy of "Photoshop 6.0 for Dummies" book my husband bought for me. If for no other reason, that shortcut guide was worth the cost of the book! ~Kelly ( Please visit my website http://ebon-dragon.com )

Thanks! This is what I'm wanting it for. The idea is to have the Dragon launching magical orbs from her hand, which then explode into fireworks... like the title says, it's a "work in progress"

"You also might want to try running a dianoatic on your machine... " Ummm... make that "You also might want to try running a dianostic on your machine..."

Attached Link: http://personal.cfw.com/~tkprit/page/leak.html

Do you de-frag your harddrive regularly? when working with files that large, a harddrive can become seriously fragmented very quickly. I routinely defrag my computer once a week minimum (I'm running an AMD 2400+ proc, with the same anount of memory as you and 140GB of disk space on WinXP Home). If your drive is badly fragmented it can take a long time for your system to find enough space to save your files You also might want to try running a dianoatic on your machine (SiSoft Sandra or something like that) to see if you're having a problem with "memory leaks" when you're in Photoshop. Since you are running Win2K the attached article link may be of some use I run some pretty large files myself with multiple layers (sometimes as many as 50-60 layers at 300-400 MB) and have never had PS take longer than a minute or so to save a file unless I was running some sort of memory hog prior to opening PS and hadn't rebooted the machine or my system needed de-fragging.

That's really cool! I love the way you did the gate.

Check to see if your librabry has a book called "Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy" He has an excellent tutorial on how to make fire in chapter 6