Whoops, I'm not a Rendermaster, but I will try to send you one or two advices... :-) Before all, I think for most of the pictures you could create, it's better to choose a better antialias setting for your picture. Then, a 72 dpi render, with a high resolution is only good if you plan to edit your image with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro (or whatever program you choose) for resizing it. It has the same effect, but with maybe a shorter render time, than a very good antialias. It can also mask a graininess problem inherent to Vue. (thanks again MikeJ for that tip ! :-)) Bur, if as you said the render time is not a problem, I suggest you to choose the 300 dpi render setting, espectially if you want to print it... A last thing : take care of the versatile estimated render time of Vue. And keep in mind that this estimated time don't count the antialias, wich can take more, more time than the calculation of the picture. For example, one of my scene was estimated to take 4 hours. I tought 'good, it's cool...' :-) The calculation took, in fact, 6 hours... plus 10 hours of antialias... augh ! :-(