I don't believe that's a seam, at least not in the texture map (it's in the middle of the neck and the whole neck is on the tex map). I think it's where the mesh makes a steeper angle than the polys around it. Do you have polygon smoothing on? One thing I usually do as well in Poser 6 is turn the Minimum Shading Rate WAY down - it's default in firefly is 1.00 and I turn it down to 0.02 or even .01 (takes care of that really dirty look you sometimes get with bump maps). Try that. Could be the lighting too ;o). Laurie