I found with interest a topic regarding transparency and region selection for screen capture. The examples included are excellent (HERE). In particular, Melba23's highlighted method was cool - I was trying this out on a number of desktops with dark/black backgrounds. Ss such, the selection area is a little hard to see / the highlight effect is lost a little. i tried to merge elements from the example with a rectangle around the selection area and entered flicker hell... I don't understand any of