Excellant answer! Much appreciated. The one little point is that Corel's PhotoPaint deals with an image as pixel by pixel data not an inch by inch and scale data item. Using PhotoPaint's Resample command to reset resolution WITH the Maintain File size option checked will alter only the scale factor data in the image data files header lines. It does not in any way alter/delete/add to the image data (pixel by pixel info). This makes it a very useful tool to me. I run at 1280x1024 32 bit and render at 1280x1024 (makes better wallpapers for me that way) Bryce render well beyond its displayed image area (equivalent to being off the desktop in effect). I usually do a quick partial render at 50% to verify the final image composition and then, if happy, run the render at 100%. Works well. I did my renderotica callender renders the same way and they worked abs the same as my regular ones. Whats more fun is my monitor is 91 ppi not 72.

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