Okay, I want to clarify something here though. You are making the regular render the first layer, the distance render another layer--you did the mask from image (distance layer--THEN you inverted the mask??), etc. When you used the demo pic (the bottle), did you 'merge all layers' because it was IN layers already? Then why did you make a box selection and do a gradient fill instead of a 'mask from image'--I think I missed something. Diane B