Background music is Copyright © 1996, 1997 by Michael D. Walthius. All Rights Reserved. Linear gradient issues: dobe changed the linear gradient workings with version 5. So far as I know there is no documentation of the change. The definition in the Photoshop 4 and 5 help files both state that a linear gradient shades from the starting point to the ending point in a straight line. The definition in the Photoshop 3 help file states that a linear fill creates a gradient from one point to another in a straight line. The difference between the linear gradient workings between version 5 and previous versions was brought to light by someone who complained about it in the Photoshop newsgroup. For more information on the dialog go to dejanews and use the power search feature to confine the search to comp.apps.graphics.photoshop. Anyway out of curiosity I decided to investigate the issue and make a few comparisons. he adjacent image shows a black to white gradient created in Photoshop 3, 4 and 5 top to bottom respectively. I created a 72 pixels per inch RGB canvas in each version of Photoshop that was 100 pixels high and 300 pixels long. I then created a linear gradient foreground to background with the background white and the foreground black. A casual glance at the gradients by my middle aged eyeballs doesn't reveal much. They all look the same to me. However, the info palette reveals a very different story. I checked the RGB value of each gradient at the 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 pixel points. PS3 and PS4: 50 pixel point=42 each for the RGB values, 100=85 each, 150=128 each, 200=170 each and 250=213 each PS5: 50 pixel point=32 each for the RGB values, 100=79 each, 150=127 each, 200=175 each and 250=222 each. s can be seen from the above numbers, the gradient values for Photoshop 5 are quite different from previous versions. This is especially true at the ends of the gradient. No longer can anyone who has made frequent use of Photoshop's gradient in its 2 previous iterations expect the same result as previously obtained. Furthermore there is nothing that can be done about it since there is no feature to create gradients as they have been done in previous versions. Text 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.