Fran, yes you are right I also tried to play with the diffuse settings in Daz and nothing happened in Bryce. Seems this is a bug and we should report it. The workaround I found was to play with the diffuse strength % in Daz Studio By lowering them from 100% to around 50 you can have your body part a lot darker. Lets wait some time if Morrigan can find a workaround in Bryce but we should fill in a bug report at DAZ telling them that the diffuse strength is not passed to Bryce. To alter the picture file in PaintShop you can try to play with the filters. If you want to change the colours and mace it darker only I would use the Contrast and Brightness settings you also do not need to applied the new texture on all the body part of the dragon and can select only some parts. Jacques