No problem. The more I use Photoshop the more amazed I am at it (and I'm still on just version 5!), so it's always nice to share my pathetically limited knowledge of it with others. By the way layers are an amazing thing. Just for fun, take one of your renders, drop it into photoshop and make a couple of duplicate layers of your orignal image. Then play around with the different opacity and blending settings for the layers (hard light, soft light, screen, multiply, darken, dissolve, etc.) - you can get some really useful effects this way easily. Go extra crazy and apply different filters to your layers and see what happens. I'm finding that taking a base skin texture, duplicating a couple of layers of it and then tweaking the duplicate layers to different blending/opacity modes, adjusting the brightness/contrast and saving the result as a new texture can really punch up your skin textures, giving them some more intense depth, definition and variation. Anyway so many toys...so little time! Unzipped