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Joe, If the GIFs were blurry, chances are you can't do much with them without an image processor. Even then you might not get the results you want. GIFs vary in quality widely. Digi-paint is a paint program. You could use it to colorize pictures, or to simulate cropping. I use paint programs to remove those advertisments BBS love to paste all over the picture. 🙂 If you're a fair artist, you can play around with images, removing clothes from clad models (or putting them on nudes), etc. A better solution for you might be to check out the graphics forums here on CompuServe. The images are generally high quality, and there are lots of them. Starting out with a good GIF does make quite a bit of difference. 🙂 Two additional megs, added to your one, give you three. That should be enough to work with most images of 640×480 or less. At $95.00, I suspect you are looking at a board for the 2000 though. If you get that, you still have to buy a chassis to attach it to your 500. I haven't played with DCTV, but I understand its digitizer is similar to digi-view. It is (I think) an 18 bit system, so whatever standard paint program you get it won't work with DCTV. I am not sure what comes with the DCTV package. It may include a paint program. You would still have to add lighting, copy stand, cables, etc., and probably a new camera, to use the digitizing function. You might want to defer a decision on DCTV until you get some practice working in normal 8 bit modes. (ADPro and ImageMaster (or whatever Ben is calling it this week) should both work with DCTV images.) For the moment, a paint program and some memory should be good enough to get you going. You will probably want more very shortly, but you can work with those. The Art Department should run around $100, and would be a logical next step. (Get the GIF module with it so you can convert and process the image at the same time.) ADPro is preferable if you can swing it, but it runs around $250. (Image Master is in the same price category [ MORE ]