Background music is Copyright © 1996, 1997 by Michael D. Walthius. All Rights Reserved. Text issues: hotoshop 5 changed the way text is handled. I won't go into all the technicalities of the changes. What is important, at least to some people, is that the text will appear different under certain circumstances. The adjacent screen shot, magnified 2X, shows identical text in Photoshop 3 and 4 at the top left to right respectively and Photoshop 5 at the bottom. Anti-Alias was selected for all versions. Photoshop 5 has the option to kern or not to kern depending on whether or not the auto kern radio box is checked in the type tool area. The text at the bottom left has not been kerned. Notice the uneven spacing between the o and the i in the word "points" on the 9 and 8 point lines. Notice the 8 point line at the bottom right. Here Photoshop 5 has the auto kern box checked yet the spacing is still uneven for the i and o in the word "points". Now look how even the spacing is with versions 3 and 4 at the top. urthermore Photoshop 5 removed the bold, italic, underline, outline and strike out/strikethrough check boxes that were present in the type tool/text tool area of previous versions. This has generated several complaints from users in the Photoshop newsgroup. The typical response from some people is to go buy bold and italic versions of the font however that is not an option for many people. Bold and italic version do not exist for many varieties of fonts and not everyone can quickly and easily purchase them if they are available. One of the more important things to keep in mind is that Photoshop is generally presented as an image enhancing/modification application. It has never, to my knowledge, been represented by Adobe or anyone else to be some sort of a page layout/desktop publishing application. That is where one is supposed to go for excellent text handling. Gradient issues Indexed color issues Leading/return key issues Minimizing/maximizing issues   All pages copyright© Roger A. Moncrief, Indepth Reviews, 1996, 1997, 1998 Thanks to Judy Gefter, !LuM! and Charles Blaquiere for their advice and counsel, some I heeded and some I didn't.