tedbragg, I agree with thgeisel on the spot lights. I only use one, maybe two, infinite lights for ambient lighting only. The rest are spots. Do you have a reference image we could look at to see what you're trying to accomplish/duplicate? There was a discussion a few weeks back on lighting...might do a search. As I recall, there was some discussion about using DOZENS of lights to achieve certain global illumination effects. (There were also some uploads in freestuff to achieve these.) Good Luck. thgeisel, Unless you're going to print, I don't think a 250 dpi render would yield any better results than 72 dpi since that's generally the top limit of monitor resolution. I've never actually tried rendering at a higher res...is there something I'm missing?