Aloha,Photo and Photo Folder seem to have a problem with PIL-generated image data... ie. creating a photo object with data processed by PIL.Thanks for the warning...I am not using them as it seemed easier for my custom situation to build from scratch. The external method/PIL example in zope book 2.6 looks like it will work for me, with a few modifications.My answer was to use VarImage instead, seems to be more closely related to Zope's Image object, and can receive Zope data as you think it would.Where do I find more about VarImage? Is it a library similar to PIL? Thanks, John S. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo