I have to admit, Illy's pretty darn good

[iamtheblues]

Despite the negative comments generally associated with Adobe products, I must say that the more I use Illustrator, the happier I am using it.
It's like it repays you for taking the time and trouble to get acquainted. I particularly like the way I can easily achieve grunge type effects like
the one I have attached below. I wasn't able to get the clipping mask to do what I wanted in Illustrator, so I saved the work and brought it
into XDP 7 to use clipview and on importing, it came in as a whole load of paths. I wasn't successful in grouping them all and so some got left
outside of the clip...I liked the happy accident, though.
Bob.