Vue D'Esprit does excellent realistic outdoor scenes and is rather affordable with a less steep learning curve than Bryce. It also imports Poser easily. Bryce has tons and tons of freebies and tutorials out here and does killer other worlds. You need to study a tutorial to get Poser into Bryce. I just use PhotoShop, myself. PSP does the same thing, I just don't know it as well. You can get plenty of props and freebies to do good interiors to start. I would suggest you try Poser's renderer first and see if you like it. It does ok for me and there is not the hassle of moving stuff. There are free trees in the FS-- look for Virtual Forest. Realistic landscapes are not what Poser was designed for but there are workarounds including backgrounds in PSP. Poser renders with an alpha channel so you can float a background in well. I bought Vue, but I haven't needed to crack it yet. I suppose I eventually will. I've been posing since January. Honestly, the Best Other softwear is Hardwear. A good Graphic's tablet and a Paint Program will get you the furthest. Emily