Thanks, Jim and Varian. Jim, I'm wary about sizing up an image for fine-line drawing and then sizing it back down. When I size an image down to an signifigant degree, it always becomes blurry. I use the sharpen filter to counteract this, but I suspect that the antialiased lines and the colors are being affected in the process. Varian-- Your suggestions is intriguing, but I don't understand it. How will the guassian blur cause anti-aliasing? Won't it just blur the line? Actually, there are some other techniques that I've heard of. A couple of Poser artists in tutorials have suggested using the smudge tool. I suppose if you pull the color in a very narrow path you might get an anti-aliased line. However, this is hardly a way to create a springy free-hand line! I tried using Painter, but the results seemed no better than Photoshop-- the lines were not anti-aliased. However, I don't think I was using the scratchboard tool you suggested, Jim, because I got mixed up. Back to the drawing board. Another possibility is to try it in Illustrator, which I also have (I went crazy when I was shopping for art apps, and have this even though I never use it!) Illustrator creates all its lines as vectors, and presumably anti-aliases everything when you convert it to rastor. If this works then I'll end up using Illustrator 7 days a week! I'll report back my findings.