Larry - I agree that 3000x3000 is large, but as a texture CREATOR, it is an ideal size to work on because it allows retouching body hair (eyebrows, beard stubble, chest hair) realistically with a single pixel brush - smaller texture sizes make a single pixel brush stroke too broad to be any good). As far as distribution goes, it is also a good size because you can deliver all that detail to the consumer without distortion (allowing for slight degradation of JPEG compression). Now as for rendering, I advise most people to buy those high res textures, but put them in a special folder outside of Poser. Within Poser create an identical folder (and contents) and batch-sample all the textures down by 50% - use this for most rendering. But when you are doing that High resolution close-up render - just swap the folders and give the renderers more to work with. (this technique eliminates the need to re-assign textures or mess with any other material settings - just swap texture folders and GO) When you pay real money for textures, its good to get the most, and sample-down for daily work. It just doesn't work the other way around - can't sample-UP a small texture and expect to add detail :-)