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Marion, HRQFX sounds neat, but what I am really looking for is an edorsment from someone who as also used photoshop. Photoshop is significantly cheaper, and it has the print media folks pretty much sold on it. The main thing that draws me to HRQFX is that it runs on the Targa+ so I can see what my colors will look like in NTSC. It is also a drawback that it doesn't run under windows, because someday I will have a fast 1024×768 or 1280×1024 24bit board with Windows drivers and good hw acceleration in 24bit mode (like the MGA, the new MediaVision board, or the SuperMatch Thunder II). Right now I'm limping along with WinRix. I got it for $79.95, but it doesn't do a whole lot and doesn't even do some of the things it is supposed to do. I also limp around in Corel-PhotPaint and have use AniPro in a pinch. Also, Piclab (free) has pulled me out of some tight spots. Amazingly, 3DS itself is a useful but limited image processing program. One of the ways I do text is to import an image into Corel Draw, put text on it, then save it out at a very high resolution. Then I set up a video post entry with just the image and vblur and get an anti-aliased (scaling the image down from a high resolution effectively anti-aliases it) and vblured image. If this sounds like a kludge, it is, but it works. I'll have to keep doing these things until I am ready to spring for $550 for Photoshop or $850 for HRQFX. BTW, what was going through Ron Scott's head when he dropped queueing from v3.0? I've been dying for an image process program that could run in batch mode and do more than piclab. Bailey