Hello There :O) Thanks for the nice tutorial Paula, I will try that one for new trees as soon as I can get the alpha maps working in my Botanica :o) And yes, Djeser, I tried rotating the maps, and still I cannot get a decent result :o( I do think it should work as advertised and can't figure out what is wrong... Would be nice to know if I am the only one having this problem. I usually make better maps, but this was just to show the problem I am having... Thanks for all the help :o) And if someone has Botanica and Vue 5, I would like to know if it's working okay for you :o) Elaine