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(A link to Visual Infinity's Grain Surgery Demo download) Really great professional advice! And as you say- your needs for a particular look to a final image really depends a LOT on the type of images you produce and how they are to be used. One of the benefits of Genuine Fractals is the small file size for transfer to print houses, etc. It's especially great for very LARGE format prints, like billboards, building graphics, etc. But Stair Interpolation 2 is better used for Professional Photography prints- and likely too for Vue images featuring detailed landscapes, etc. It really depends on where your END product is going and for what purpose. I can see that Professional Illustrators might want BOTH, depending upon the job, client needs, etc. I have not used Grain Surgery before and will definately download the demo and try it out. It looks like it would be another really good solution for the grainy shadows that sometimes show up in Vue renders. Using Photoshop and Vue's various output layers you can very precisely apply filter effects in just the shadows only. Every time I render anything in Poser, Vue- or even outside taking photos with my camera, I am always thinking about the Post-Processing I'm going to do to it with Photoshop.