It is absolutely addicting! I can't stop, there's too many possibilities I haven't tried yet...I'm using gimp, though today I downloaded a PSPI plugin for the first time, the matting tool. It took me hours to get it to work, and then I kinda found the result not better than what I had done before...boo.

I don't work on the icons in icon size. I scale it down when it's done (and a million times to check the effect on it).

Thanks for your words about my image! I knew that the skin tone still didn't match, but I changed it already that much and had no idea left to work with, so I decided to leave it the way it is. DD's tips about the various fonts and the dark borders at Spike's throat are great, I'll work it over some when I have the time.

Thanks again for your encouraging words! I'm so happy that you like what I did!