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Paul, you'll get no argument from me about FDesign's understanding of what an artist needs. I well remember the days of Lumena, which I think was $5000. I come from a fine arts background, specifically painting, and when Painter 2.0 came out I nearly fainted. 3.0 demonstrates the fact that they know how to make a computer a true ART STUDIO TOOL. However, <sigh> a number of code issues keep arising. A few of the more high end programmers I know can really get to spinning their wheels when talking about PAINTER's bizarre tendency to eat itself, produce GPFs and demonstrate some all too obvious bugs. I'm not a programmer, but can clearly recognize Bugville. When I was about to upgrade to 3.0, a fella that I team with said "wait just a bit, it's very buggy". In the end, yes, Painter is perhaps the most innovative piece of 2D imaging software out there. Question: Can this degree of image manipulation power also have cleaner code? Hey, while I'm at it – now that X-tools are bundled with 3.0, I hear they are working on a 3D-paint interface. WOW! watch out models, is it real modeling or is it PAINTER <LOL> Jeffrey