okay.. this is almost a ocmplaint. something i find annoying anyway... you cant create a new layer from the layer submenu of the image menu. you can only do that from the layers, channels, paths dialog. it comes with ctrl n which also is the new image code. so i switched it to alt n. but if i do that when the image window is in focus instead of the layers, channels, paths dialog, it doesnt work. is there a way to change it so the short cuts in other dialog's menus can be used in the image window? otherwise it is kinda useless since i have to change focus to do it which usually means the mouse since i have so many open it is a pain to use tab. so is there any way to change that and if not, could that be a new feature for a future release? thanks. bex