Laurie, personnally I prefer very, very much the original, but only because I like the light colors and the 3d looking of this image. I don't want to start again a polemical about postwork. I just wanted to say that I'm NOT AT ALL against postwork. I'm against calling an image a VUE picture when it is so much overworked that it becomes a bad advertising for Vue's real being and abilities and looks like any painting created in a paint program (thats not bad, but not Vue :-)). Mostly, in my opinion, important post work, especially in changing colors or adding "brushes", the image looses all 3D effect. Your original, if you have an attentive look to it, has a lot of depht and looks great. A part of the 3D effect got loosed in the overworked image and becomes completely flat with the "rain", too thick, too regular (Vue can do rain much better :-)) You would love Vue 4 with the possibility to create real stars and suns. :-)Guitta