Good morning Gare

Good tutorial. I am glad you showed alternative ways instead of just relying on the latest version. Everything you did could be accomplished by anybody still running in XaraX or Xtreame, no problems there. The clone tool is basically just slice and dice, which you did with the alligator. I do love the trick of selecting the original image and selecting all the nodes and hitting the back key.........fantastic tip there. I used to do the same thing by slicing, cloning the slice, moving the clone, then selecting the original slice and image and adding them together. Did exactly the same thing but I like your method.

Like many people out there, I am running an older non pro version and am very happy where I am with no intentions of upgrading in the near future. Like Bill, I believe almost everything you can accomplish with version 8, I can accomplish with older versions by using work arounds, sometimes I just have to think harder.