Thanks for accepting such comments. People like yourself will make good artist Your imaginary, location wise..."garden is sitting on a small hill and there's a little bit of a valley between it and the mountain" is a tough one indeed! May be you should pull the mountain way back and make it big (as the manual recomended for large distance object as background). Yes, be agressive and give it more roughness and bumps (I always love to do that). As for the "little valley between", I suggest you create another terrain between the large distance mountain and the 'fence' but closer to the fence. Let 1/3 of the "valley" mount shows above the 'fence'. I am just visualizing it in my mind, but I hope it looks look when its done. Have a good one Kate! Bill