Hi Vique I have version 7 and 8. I love version 7. 8 seems a lot slower to load and doesn't seem as friendly BUT maybe if I played with it more I'd change my mind. It does have some great new features like tha automatic photo enhance and warp tool that's lacking in 7. The great thing about PSP is the amount of FREE help online and the availability of plugins, tubes etc. There's a tutorial for everything you could imagine and the help files are brilliant - one of the rare programs where "help" is actually helpful :) I've never seen version 9 so can't comment. Here's a couple of links to download the trial versions (30 day fully functional) of version 7 and 9. Sorry I couldn't find a site that had version 8 for free. Maybe if you had a play with them it would help you decide. Good luck Sue :) Trial Version PSP7 http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windows/Graphics/Image-Editors/psp7-download.html Trial Version PSP9 http://www.corel.com/NASApp/cs/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Downloads/Trials

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It's the same Elly but if it was merged before saving which is "according to Hoyle", if you get what I mean, then you wouldn't get those blank frames inbetween in AS. No harm done but can confuse a person if they didn't know deleting the blanks could fix it like you did. I think the tutor forgot the step about merging unless her image was not floating like ours? Anyway, I like the fact I don't have to save each one and re-open later to animate by following the steps I posted above. Deb, That link came from darling Elaine.

I guess I just feel very deeply that distance between what I see and how I say what I see..and I strive to narrow it somehow to be able to transfer the thought. Said aprineverends and every color scientist and pioneer of color systems that has ever lived starting with Aristotle. :) That's essentially the definition of colorimetry. Colorimetry is the science and technology used to quantify and describe how humans see and experience color. what is meant by "neutral", usually..and why? Depends on who you ask. Technical - Like undertone, neutral has a technical definition too. A true neutral is achromatic gray, white and black. Why - As soon as any degree of hue is detected (visually or measured) then it's a chromatic gray. As more hue is discerned, it's muted. Chromatic Grays and Muted colors are Near Neutrals.. . . because they are literally nearer to a true neutral. Color Mixing Theory - the color mixing approach to neutral is completely divorced from human color perception. Instead, neutral is defined by the color formula and the balance of tints in the mixture. Why - The theory is any color can be a neutral if there are equal amounts of each tint in the formula. This is the most useless definition of neutral of all because individual tints affect and change each other as they're blended to create a single color; the characteristics of the individual tints and the base in which they're mixed are blended away into oblivion and you're left with a final result - a single color. A single color with a definitive wavelength, frequency, fingerprint, DNA. So, when you end up with a single, final result that can be efficiently assessed by the 3 dimensions of human color perception, hue/value/chroma, why bother with the minor points of chemistry? Unless your job is to make/mix the color, there's absolutely no reason to get wrapped up in the minutia of tints and bases. Experiential - some people use the word neutral much like they use the word undertone; a big umbrella to cover a wide range of color, pattern and texture perception. Why - Using neutral and undertone to articulate a visual experience is the best some people can do. With color in particular, the more you know how it works, the more clearly you're able to communicate what you see. For example, once you understand that every color (including whites, muted colors, and chromatic grays) belongs to a hue family, you don't have to default to abstract notions of neutral and undertones. Instead you have a refined vocabulary of color terms to pull from so you can communicate color clearly.