If you want a little more control over your depth cueing, you can do it in post-processing, like this: First, generate a depth map by enabling depth cueing, turning off all the lights, setting the background color to white, and zeroing all ambience, and rendering the scene. (This information is courtesy of williamsheil.) Now, feed your original render and the depth map to Defocus Dei, a $69 program by MooTools (formerly Blackfeet), at http://www.mootools.com/plugins/us/defocus/index.htm . The program does all sorts of interesting depth-of-field effects (depth of field, atmospheric perspective, saturation, hue, and luminosity, depending on depth). It is a lot quicker to try different variants in post then by rerendering again and again. Of course, for animations, you'd have to render as individual frames, run the frames through DefocusDei, then put them back together, which might be a pain. Lynn Grant Castle Dev Group