Must look for that attractive new post by Ede. I'm glad you said that about using half the face Allie, because that is just what I've been doing for the last week. ;-) It also might explain why a texture I did of an old friend worked out even better because she had her head slightly turned. (more cheek, no ear) When I use nice front view face shots, I'm always running out of skin for the cheeks. Since exclusive use of the cloning brush doesn't always look smooth, I came up with the wacky idea of sampling a piece of the skin and turning it into a tileable texture- like a fabric pattern. I get yards of fairly useable skin that way. It isn't perfect, but usually doesn't need to be.