Yup. Have thought that myself at times. Seems to be a trend not to be critical of anything in case someone takes offense. To me, the point of being able to give Constructive Critisicm is to help a person improve thier work and to also improve the quality of the pictures posted in the gallery. This is what people need to improve thier skills and thier artistic talent (if they actually have some that is) and in turn it improves both the quality and credibility of both the artist and the program and the gallery.

As long as this trend continues and people are so involved in patting each other on the back and saying how good they are the Bryce gallery will always be considered rather 2cnd rate and amatuerish in scope and talent.

I love using Bryce and as it was the first graphic program I ever had I have lot of fondness for it. I remember how when I first started using it and the people who were here at the time gave me honest appraisals and criticisms on my attempts helped me a lot. I am by no means a great artist or a Bryce user but I attempt to do the best I can and have had my share of bad( and I mean bad) pictures I have posted in the galleries. Thank God I have learned not to post most of them anymore:)

There are some great Bryce users on this site who very rarely post thier work in the gallery any more and I wonder if the above is not part of the reason??

I am not out to offend anyone or to make people angry by what I have said here but more to hopefully make people think about what they are doing when they give high praise to pictures that quite honestly are a lot of times crude, amatuerish and a lot of times bad renders ( some not even anti-aliased) when in all honesty they should know better.

I know they say art is in the eye of the beholder but come on, good is good, bad is bad and crap is crap no matter how you describe. Also, common sense is common sense. Lets use some and lets improve the quality of our gallery.