Mike, you are correct, I cannot apply spot color to grayscale photo in xara and output it to spot color. I can color gray tiff files in Quark and InDesign and output to spot color. I've been using XDPX, lately, for about 50% of my commercial work. Trying to get one program that does everything is very hard to do. Xara does a great job for most things. Thanks for your comments. Later! Lew