Tyger purr, Nice job, that definitely softens the edges. I think we're getting closer to creating a decent footprint. After sleeping on it for the night I think I'm going to go back to the original render (Figure 7)and instead of inverting it, just remove the black baground and then like Mec4D and Tyger purr try blurring the edges to soften them a bit. I'll play with that idea today and see what I come up with.