i was wondering about what sam said re redering double the finished size english. could i do a render at 3456x 3456 or bigger and resize the image in photoshop to get a better quality image. my pc is a toshiba sat 5200-902 pentium 4 2.4 ghz 512 ram i'm using a 200 gb external drive which runs at 7200rpm i was also wondering about large renders...i did one to see how it would look and when i saved it as a jpg i had the task bar in the picture. thanks for your time billy