Thank you for including my image. :)  Sorry for the delay in responding, I had no internet all day yesterday. :)

Thank you so much for including my image!  Congrats to everyone whose image appears here too.  Beautiful work, all! :)

Thank you too, Spanfarkle!!!! :O)

Thanks, yes this does help!!! I was thinking of pixel demensions in terms of a finer looking image.... THat's how I understood the comments I'd read regarding the pixel size, that setting it as a 300 or 600 dpi would make the image look more defined when it printed off.... As for the image size, if you set the image at a size of 1024x768 (my desktop) but then adjust the dpi for the print quality, the image will stay at 1024x768? Sorry, but I am new at this, so I'm a bit paranoid I suppose..... As for the alpha1 thing, that's great! because I was trying to figure out a way to render the figure in Poser, but then remove it from the Poser background so I could place the figure against a Bryce background in Photoshop... I find that the skin tone, etc is much nicer and more realistic looking (at least in terms of my ability at this point) when I render the figure in Poser as opposed to Bryce. Thank you SO much!!! Jessie.

Thank you both for your replies to my picture. As for the myth, yes, she did parade through the town, but I took "artistic freedom" in placing her in the forest... The myth is that she had been campaigning for lower taxes (her husband had the power to do this), and he agreed to lower the taxes on the condition that she ride naked through the town... She made sure to clarify that it was indeed ok with him that she do this, he said yes, so she did. There are various little details that change about this myth, depending on where you get your information. In one version, she had two handmaidens riding their own horses next to her, and her hair was actually in braids. My interpretation is only one of many. But in any version I've read, she proudly completed this task, fully believing that the cause for which she was doing it was a noble one, and it's likely she could have garnered some pride from the fact that her husband probably did not expect her to actually go through with it. At any rate, her frame of mind in riding is really a matter of interpretation.... She could have felt "forced," I suppose, but she could also have felt empowered, and so the smile on her face is not necessarily an impossibility. If you're interested in the web links to various accounts of the myth that I've found, just email me and I'll send them away!!! As for your comments about the "textures" etc. in my picture, I've taken those to heart and will definitely keep them in mind when I rework the picture. Thanks again for taking the time to reply. I REALLY appreciate it.