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Dave, I'm getting a copy of Black Belt Systems' WinImages. It is actually two programs (Win Images F/X and Win Images Morph) bundled together for one price. Someone mentioned that they liked the program for effects like lightning and glows. I downloaded a copy from Animation Vendors A Forum and I am impressed. It does great effects over time. you can give it a path in frame 1 and select colors, width, branches, etc… The effect will be animated following your specified variation (via editable splines) very impressive! Especially for $99 list. The effects can be done with alpha. The number of selectable effects (all time based) is pretty impressive. I'll be placing my order as soon as I find a mail order house that carries it. The pointer I have is for Safe Harbor, just have to find their phone number. I haven't look at the morph software yet but if it is anywhere as powerful as F/X it should be well worth the money. You can order the NT version for 495 list (295 mail order from Safe Harbor). It took me around 5 minutes to overlay nice (NICE being the key word here) lightning on top of an image that varied over time. The effects are every bit as configurable as the Lens F/X effects. -Matt (Active Media Graphics) Y 50 /g fM/