Okay, approaching all this a bit more thoughtfully. Have set Inf(85%) and IBL(25%) as sun and sky. Figured out how to save stuff, so I'm not reinventing the wheel each time (I'm a slow learner, hence the "challenged" in the topic title :blink: ). The render is looking a bit better, except for the shadow areas, like under her chin. So, in LuxRender, the settings are: Linear kernel, Sens: 100, Exp: 1/500, FStop: 16 (set that to 8 - weirds me out how Lux just keeps on chugging away despite what you do...) gamma 2.2.

So far?

So, I guess the stuff under her chin disappears, eventually? Or maybe I need to play with shadows... for the lights.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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