Thanks for the tips. To answer your question, no, I haven't tried IDL yet Laurie. I'm still not quite sure what the color dials (R,G,B) are for, how they affect the lighting, and where they should be set to. I'm really not up on all this terminology and the concepts, so apologies if I appear to not completely understand the why's yet of these settings.This is a lot of info to digest never having really learned much about the lighting, and I've begun to read the chapter in the manual, so I'll give some of these suggested settings a try tomorrow and see how it goes. Hopefully it will all work out ok and I'll post a new render here. :-)

Just a note....I'm rendering some still images for now, but in the end I'm going to be using HDRI, rendering my animations, and sending them my team leader in an effort to try to match scene/lighting settings in his 3D program where he will be importing them to for editing and assembly.  From what I understand so far, HDRI doesn't use any lights at all per say. Still much to learn I guess!

Much appreciate all the help, as always, one day at a time. :-)

MM