Well I'm mucking around with Linux and XPaint. Although the XPaint interface is not too impressive, the program is actually pretty interesting as its a very small subset of Photoshop tools. Not too bad in a pinch and it has one tool I really like called the DynPencil tool. It sort of interprets your mouse movements and draws graceful arcs that sort of follow your mouse input while varying the width of the line laid down. In effect it makes you look more artistic than you really are. What fun. Greg