Okay- so I bit the bullet and upgraded (got it yesterday) and so far have been impressed with the vastly expanded program.

There's a common task I need to do with PI7 that I had been doing in another graphics app, which I've started doing in PI7 and I was wondering if I was doing it the best way.

Basically, what I scan in most is cartoons. I draft these in blue pencil, ink over them in black pen, scan them in, and use a magic wand tool to selecte and then remove all the blue lines and marks.

I've tried this in Pi7 and mostly it works pretty well (with RGB color similarity set to 50) but I do find I have to take a few passes at it to get all the shades of blue (setting color similarity too high often selects, and this removes some of the black lines). The only gripe I have is that in the other app (ArcSoft Photo 2000) I was using I could define color similarity by seperate RGB channels (that is, it had sliders for Red Green and Blue, and so I could ask the magic wand to select the "most blue" adjoining colors.)

If I am doing it the best way , that's cool as PI does seem to be doing a fairly good job. I was just wondering if there was an easier way to take all the blue out of an image in PI7 and leave just the black lines and white page.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...