Yeah, that's the way I use to work, but it takes way too much time. Thanks for replying, though. beatnik, if you take the images you want to divide to a new file, circles in pink and brush stroke effect in black, use the divide as explained previously. Then go to Select/same/fill color or stroke/pick black and then hit the delete and all the black will delete leaving only the pink in the disired look you wanted. Then copy and paste it back to your work project. That should save you a bunch of time.