Remco--thanks. The lighting and background in your pic (i've seen this somewhere before...?) makes it difficult to assess the texture(s), though it's nice for the faces (which are cute). Is that the underside of the hairband i see on the rightmost image? The hairbands throw me off. Some might like them, but the ones painted into the hair are not to my personal taste. Can you make their ends less sharp? Those edges look painful. True, my textures don't all look quite real. They are definitely not even to Beta stage! i am thinking that more definition of individual hair is required in places. Cin-, thank you also. This is the old DAZ transmap. The long pieces that go around the head, you say? They just look too...tubular, i guess, though the ones in the bangs have always been OK. The strawberry blonde is rather streaky, isn't it? i'll have to back that off some, then. This is an oddly difficult hair to texture! i have been painting is completely with "hair" brushes, too. The render seems to lose that definition. Perhaps i should increase the resolution, too.