Yea, the drop shadow needs work and I didn't mess with any of the colours or lighting. The spherize filter just lets you make a circular selection on an image and then it distorts it to look spherical. It can cause pixelating in certain images so you need to be careful when using it. The glass effect was already on the image, it just seems to have been enhanced when I used spherize. It might also be down to a bit of pixelating too. Rendering a sphere in Apophysis would be pretty hard to do I think. You can render circles but i've never managed to get a sphere. Maybe someone else has? Matt.