Thank you for helping. I have this picture I was working on that has a birdbath next to a tree. The birdbath should have a hard shadow and the tree should have a soft shadow. This might not be the way it would look in reality but it is the effect I am after. I went through the manual and decided composing it in Photoshop would be easiest way to achieve this effect. What I was hoping is that shadows could be based on lights that are influencing the object because lights that aren't influencing the object still make shadows of the object. Sorry for being long winded. If anyone knows anymore ways to achieve shadow independence I'd appreciate it. Maybe in the future vue could have this type of control.