If I recall correctly the online service Carmen is looking for utilized a GIF89A conversion tool. (i.e. GIF87a images to GIF89A.) Unfortunately, the one I am thinking of could not be found which worked great back in the DOS and Windows 3.1 days. The only similar service I was able to locate this a.m. that will convert an image to a transparency or image map for you without downloading a program to do it is: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/ or the alternative form method at: http://www.mit.edu/tweb/map.html I understand it is quite slow and works best early in the morning on UK time. For more information you might want to review this page: http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/transparent_images.html Norma Jennings