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Thank you for your explicit and encouraging reply and effort to help. In reply to my earlier wailings about IM. some kindly soul told me that you sold instructional tapes… hence my comment. Now: WHAT WE WANT TO DO.. and WHY. In our post production video work, many of our clients demand that the background for titles be their product… their plant… a process etc. not just a plain title background. Thus, we take quite a lot of the video… freeze frame, and save for title backgrounds (As Toaster Framestores). We then use the Innovision "Montage" to compose the titles… with the framestores as backgrounds. There have been client complaints that the Framestore background was too bright… and other such moanings. That the eye strayed to the background… and not the words. In some cases, they wished a small object in the background to be "blanked out". Sometimes over saturated colors to be reduced or altered. We do not like Toaster Paint… thus had high hopes for Imagemaster, which could be used without the Toaster running. We have the T-Rexx program which can convert Framestores to IFF24 and visa versa. What we want to do … is to take a Toaster framestore (as is) into IM. Make the requested corrections… then output the modified version, for addition of the titling by "Montage". Just a modified copy of the original, but same size. Then hopefully listen to the client telling us how clever we were! <g>. FIRST… we want to know how to correctly insert the Framestore (or IFF24) into IM. SECOND… how to SAVE the resultant image from IM in exactly the same size and format as it was inserted. When we have overcome those mysteries, we can then fiddle with all the little buttons, green lights etc., and hopefully (?) see what each does to the image. Preferably we like terse instructions… like "Press X… Press Z…. " and so on. Our eyes should tell us what happens. Hope this explanation helps you… in helping us. With regards, Hilary.