Hello, As you are talking about gradients, I have another idea about a useful kind of gradient that maybe I could implement. I wondered about the "shapeburst" kind of gradient, that seems to fill a selection with a gradient depending on the distance to the border. But you cannot choose how far the gradient will reach out from the border, so for example if you take a black-to-white gradient, the border is always white and the innermost point gets black. So I'd like to select a point inside the selection, and the gradient would reach out up to this point. To use such a gradient as a bump map might also be cool... Well, comments are welcome... bye, Oliver