The armor looks better in the second one, but the depth of field-- illusory, I know-- and the guy himself, look better in the first one. Cool illustration. For the sake of the halo, I hope you didnt' flatten the layers. those haloes are hard to get out-- bigger feathering area?? could do a double paste?? That would allow you to have some of the brightness from pic #2 but the interesting shadows in Pict #1. Emily