True, but when you save as a bmp Photoshop automatically compresses the layers and anti-aliases them, thats the root of my problem. Since most of my shortcuts are basically the same size, I have one background image of MagicPink, I load it, create a large image, create my graphic with the pen tool, do all the shiny pretty stuff to it, shrink/scale it down to size, and then cut and paste either onto the MagicPink, or onto a new layer on the MagicPink, both cases which seems to result in the pink halo effect? If that works for you, then maybe my problem isn't a *knowhow* problem, but a technical problem?