I have setup ImageMagick and mini_magick. Generally speaking, I''m impressed. The problem seems to be that, unless I''ve missed something, there is not a lot of documentation detailing the use of mini_magick. I''ve figured out that one can create an image object instance from a file with something like: image=MiniMagick::Image.from_file(''path_to_file'') and then work with it (e.g., image[:width]). I''m wondering if there are other sources that I can use for creating an image object. For example, could I source my object across the net with something like: image=MiniMagick::Image.from_net(''url_to_image'') Thanks for any input. ... doug