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Dan, Actually, Micro Warehouse will be shipping Release 3, not release 2. Those ads are prepared well in advance of publication time, and we were not comfortable assuming that we would have R3 ready when the MWH book shipped. In point of fact, the books a little early anyway, but we felt people would be less annoyed with the delay in receiving R3 than they would be with finding out they could have had R3 in just a few days. 🙂 So to answer the question, your $50 can go either place. You can't buy R2 right now from us, at least not without some fairly dire warnings. We'll take your order for R3, though – it really is just around the bend. What does F/x do? The answer is fairly simple. F/x applies special effects or photometric operations (like contrast, that type of thing), and other classes of operations (composition, clipping) to single images (so far, think Photoshop and you have an idea… R3 has many similarities to Photoshop)… and also to streams of images, unlike Photoshop… when you have an effect, you can cause any part of that effect, including it's location and affected region, to change over time. If you like messing about with images and/or animations, F/x is sure to delight. For some examples of types of effects, check out the images in DL8 of the libs here. I've not posted any animations from F/x (although there's a nice morph there) yet, but I will when I get back from the VTU show in California next week. In the meantime, if this provikes more questions, feel free to ask. Ben