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Roger, Ok….you can do it. It just requires some work. Here is something I have been successful with. Go into Deluxe Paint ans load in your HAM file. If the HAM file is in 320×400, then use Dpaint in 320×400. Load in the HAM pic, you will get a Dpaint requester that has some garbage text in it. Click on the [LOAD] gadget. You HAM pi will load, but will look like garbage. What you have now though, is the 16 Color Palette that Digi-Paint uses in the first 16 regs of the Dpaint Palette. Now, create your text in Dpaint using that Palette. When done, save the picture. Now, go into Digi-Paint and Load this Picture, clicking on Palette from picture gadget. Copy this to the SPARE SCREEN. Then Load in your HAM Picture. All you have to do now is MERGE from Spare. NOTE: Have your Digi-Paint settings set to SOLID, with Transparency ON. The results will be CLEAN text on the HAM picture. It will be CLEAN beause the TEXT Palette is the same as the HAM pic palette. And that Palette is used to get RID of Jaggies. Another suggestion would be to use THE DIRECTOR. It uses a Script language to manipulate your images. It also has a Built in Text facility. If using The Director, you can load your HAM pic, and superimpose any text on it. This method is preferable to the above because you don't alter your HAM pic every time you want to change the text. You just edit the text in your Director script. One drawback though, you use system fonts (or any PD fonts, commercial fonts, etc). This means that they can only be ONE color. But, with a little trickery, like overlaying the text in black, then offsetting it a few pixels in another color, you can get cast shadows, etc. I hope this has given you some help or insight into finishing your project. Let me know how things turn out, and most of all….GOOD LUCK!