To do it in Photoshop: Place a white or black letter on your image using the standard type tool. Leave it selected so that the marching ants still outline it. Switch the foreground/background colors so now you have black instead of white or vice versa. Under the Edit pull down menu there is a selection called Stroke. Select stroke and a dialog box comes up. We typically are working with text being placed on the image at 324 dpi so we set the pixel option to 3 and select the outside option. this will place a black border around a white letter similar to the old letraset method. Thomas E. Phillips, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Director, Molecular Cytology Core Facility 3 Tucker Hall. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, (314)-882-4712 (voice), (314)-882-0123 (fax)