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Donald, No need to beg. 🙂 I meant what I said. AdPro is *nothing* compared to Imagemaster. YOu may feel that they complement each other and that's fine. Nontheless it remains a _fact_ that 99% of what you can do with Imagemaster, you cannot do with AdPro. And 99% of what you can do with AdPro, you CAN do with Imagemaster. As for automation, Imagemaster has MUCH easier ARexx control than does AdPro; much more complete, as well. ProControl, like the Pro Conversion pack and a bunch of other added-vaule/added cost packages certainly do extend the domain of the AdPro product – so if you want to talk about AdPro & Morph+ & ProControl & Pro Conversion Pack and all the other aftermarket stuff you can pay extra for and lump them all into one, I'd agree that's a decent package. Of course, the 99$ MSRP of IM R/t and the MSRP of that aggregate of Adpro etc products is really quite different and you STILL don't have a comparably effective package in most areas – your point about automation is well taken, however. It'd be nice if there was a similar "go from ARexx" package for IM R/t. But you know, in IM R/t's ARexx capabilities are splined control windows usable for any function you like over time, simplified application of those values to any operation… it's really quite powerful along those lines. No one has ever plugged those capabilities together into a Procontrol-like package, but it's all there waiting to happen anyway. There's much more capability FOR control than AdPro has, of course. 🙂 AdPro was always a marketing snow job as a competitive package. It's perfectly good for what it does, mind you, but it's totally balony as a feature-based competitor to IM R/t. It's a fact that there are two other packages in the Amiga marketplace that do the vast majority of the things that AdPro lays claim to, and do them better than AdPro ever could. Now that ASDG/ER/WhoeverTheHeckTheyAreNow have left you, and the rest of the Amiga users fannies hanging out in the cold, you get to learn a little bit more about the product, and the people who made it. If you're still happy, hey, that's great. I don't want you unhappy. 🙂 In the meantime, we just upgraded the package, still have all-day support, and plan more yet to come. Just one of those differences in outlook, y'know. As far as scanning being fun, I really like Imagemaster's scanning package a lot. Fun… well, I dunno,. Guess I wouldn't go that far. Needs an animation of Cheech and Chong to be *fun*. 🙂 The sales people's phone number is (800) 852-6642. –Ben …via AutoPilot