I never suffered from proud, so I'm allowed to use all the tools, VUE Poser Pshop etc, at hand when I make an image, if going out and shooting a few pics of a sky or plant is the better way to go then that's the way to do it, atleast for me. A quick browse through the VUE gallery here shows 70-80% of the images are Poser scenes rendered in VUE, very few of these Poser figures and their textures were handcrafted for that particular picture by the creators of the images, that never seems a problem to the purists among us.