Welcome two885! I am not the greatest artist in the world myself, yet I have found Bryce to be one of the most immed- iately gratifying and intuitive apps out there, 3D, or other wise. Instead of pouring myself a tall-one at the end of a hard day, I turn to Bryce as my stress relief( it's my Zen pixel-garden!) I know that a lot of programmers are very analytical and tend to "edit" their artistic impulses as not being good enough, which can defeat their purpose of wanting to be creative. One way to approach Bryce is to take a lesson from a child at play. I have learned a lot just by saving often and seeing what all the neat filters in the terrain and symetrical lattice greyscale editor would do. No worries, no risk, if you don't like the result you can always undo. There are so many great tutorials on myriad sites on the web. Most of these are easy to follow, and it is usually fairly simple to replicate their results. Just type "Bryce" into your browser and see how many results you get. Oh, and the Bryce manual is great too. I wish more soft ware had a manual as well-written.