Thanks for all the help Guys. I have really learned a lot. I am including some PICS of my renders to let you see what happened. In the first image I applied the image map as well as the trans map the diffuse color. (By the way I loaded the Black Angelina Wings option for the exercise.) I was able to see the map but everything was still mostly black. I went down the line and changed all the default colors to white and rendered. I got the first image. Nice but still a little dark. I couldn't figure out what was happening at first but then I had an epiphany. The Angelina Wings are composed of 6 different feather groups as well as feather shafts. I had changed the image map and trans map of feather group 1 but none of the others. They were all still the default black. So after going though all the feather groups and shafts I ended up with my second render. More what the mat is supposed to look like I am sure. And I removed V3, she was distracting. :) Again thanks for all the help. You people are great.