Thanks everyone for your help, input, and experience. I know there are many plugins out there I would like to get, and it's a matter of waiting for money to grow on trees... in the meantime I think I'm going to buy them as I can. So I'm going to start with anything grows, just because I've got some plans for it already. In fact I just finished my Happy 2006 image... using the demo. I'll probably post it in the gallery. Next on my list is shader ops and then primvol... and I'll go from there. Again thank you all for your responses. Christina

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