Yeah, I did see that one. It looked good, but it started last Monday. I'm having that kind of luck with this search. He also mentioned wanting me to stay on the east coast, but at some point he's going to have to cave on something.

Thanks for the effort.

Man, your boss sounds like a tough customer, Kris! And I empathize with you on the classes--I was a day late for everything last year.

What if you downloaded the free trial, got to know it that way, then showed him how great it is? Maybe he'd be so impressed with it (and how quickly you learned) that he'd let you go for it.

In all honesty, the training DVDs make more sense as you could go back and watch them over and over again as needed. Also, don't rule out other things like my newsletters and the great assistance from forums such as this one.

I need photomontage help
 

I'm trying to achieve the following effect...one photo in the middle of the screen resized with track motion...Then a series of scrolling pics (also resized w/track motion) moving left to right above the middle photo...and another series of resized photos moving right to left below the middle photo. I'm using track motion to do all of this, but when I keyframe each image to move across the screen they all want to do their own thing. I messed around with it for an hour or so and couldn't get it right. am I on the right track here?

For every keyframe you have added, look at the properties on the left hand side for the "smoothness" setting. Change that from 1 to 0 and your linear keyframes will now be linear instead of speeding up and slowing down.