thanks diane, I am sorry that I posted that here but noone was answering me elsewhere and you all seemed so interested in texturing in this thread! Anyway. I have a feeling that it's more than I can do yet, as I am fairly new to bryce and poser still. I did get a nice email from someone via 3d commune and he explained some things to me privately. The only thing I need to understand is how to get both sides of the model into the other program for painting. he said I need both sides. So, if I have the dog facing me on the screen, should I change that to a side view and export 2 images, one from each side view or should I keep it facing front and do something else that i don't know about? geeze, I must sound so thick!