Well it was rendered at 300dpi so it must be the after effects of the jpg process. The color difference in the skin for face and body comes from the makeup I think, but it looks ok when rendered in Poser so I'm not sure why it should look so much different on the web. The do's and don'ts of the contest say to use one prop in the scene and I wanted the background dark to make it look like she's coming out of a dead space. Maybe I could darken the pillar texture to fill the gap between black and light. 8) Catlin