Sacred, I've found that I don't always like the crystal clear clarity of some of my Vue renders, and I've sometimes rendered a completely final scene with complete anti-aliasing and then saved it as .bmp. Then I'll render just a preview at the same size and save it, as well. I don't know what painting programs you might have, but if you have something which allows you to blend the rough version in with the final version, you might be able to get something more to your liking. I use Painter 6, myself. It has this "clone" brush and it works by painting one image into another, and the opacity can be varied by either the opacity controls or a stylus. I'll see if I can quick come up with an example of what I'm talking about in just a bit. I agree with what Mary Canary said...very nice posing and subject matter. And composition, too. :) Cheers, Mike