You're welcome, ming. Actually, you both have made good points. I think Guitta's example more closely illustrates difference between the two as far as a more exact replica of the Poser lighting is concerned. I do see Poser images with extremely good lighting in them; I personally find lighting in Poser very difficult to get to grips with. Not that I'm that much better in Vue, but I find Vue is easier to work with as far as creating/placing/editing various lights. Maybe one of our lighting masters here can speak to that. As far as the render image in Vue, the things for me that crank up render time are reflections, particularly. So I tend to be careful when using that. There are a lot of different options in the render settings window, which I find easier than in Poser 4. I've had some renders take a long time, but that is due to the amount of trees, etc, I have in the image. One of my recent images (The Pasture) took a couple of hours to cook, as I did selective antialiasing on the tree leaves. One thing that I like about using Vue vs Poser is the 4-window view you have (top, sides, front) of your scene, and how easy it is to rack-and-stack objects in your scene, group them, and move them around. Anyhow, that's my 2 Euro-cents worth.

Sgiathalaich