Thank you for the kind words. There are three main aspects of the background: the sky, the sun symbol and fraxflame, and the images painted over the background. The first two were set into an image and used as a poser background picture. Then the images using nozzles/imagelists were painted on along with the texture to the staff and the flowery garment. Then the whole thing was equalized using the equalizer, and I did this several times bringing up some parts of the image by dimming or brightening, sharpening and blurring. A lighting was applied, then vignette then the image was reworked through the equalizer to bring out some of the stuff that got faded or dimmed. Last was a final lens flare effect to the right. KPT is a photoshop plug in but it works with the other graphic programs including Painter. I like Painter6 features, the graphic pens (made teeny tiny) make interesting strokes. The garment is painted on with a nozzle on a layer that was made more transparent and overlayed.