it's a great goldy-blue shot of a thingie >lit by the evening sun in the snow!!! What a title! I guess everyone is really happy that Alpha is back? What creative energy! The unsharp mask helped the most. [Some sharpening of digtal images is always needed; it's not any admission of failure, it's part of the mathematics. Antoonio- think of it as a D/A reconstruction filter. The sharpening compensates for the sin(x)/x rolloff caused by using "boxcar" samples.] [Hey, no stranger than a great goldy-blue shot of a thingie lit by the evening sun in the snow!!!] Love the sparkles! So, I guess my idea this month for snow textures is already shot out of the park?? ;-)