... . What you must do is crop your background image into 3 separate sections in your graphics editor program, and then add each one as a separate picture shape, wrapped to the relevant template. You should be able to establish the crop positions by referring to the template length dimensions shown in the info, and calculating the number of dots in each section by proportion. The image wrapping starts at the peg position, so you can get some fine control by moving the peg along the control template (CTRL+ F8): 2_070627_240000000.png n.b. if you need to do some trial and error, you must delete the unwanted wrapped picture shape and reload the original image file as a new picture shape. I will look at an option to save the original image and re-use it. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Jan 2012 17:59 from: r_wilton Martin Wynne wrote: Alternatively you can build up what you want using 3 transition curve templates -- easement from straight to first curve; S-curve transition from first curve to second ...