I approved both, they are up now! AgentSmith

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Thanks!! :-D

Thanx lots. That's a very nice tree. And the image is very cool too. I love those rays :)

I'd like to see the sky settings too :) The could are very interesting. How do you make those rays?

Thanks! Great tutorial and tree settings. Peggy

I have a confession to make! l The rays are postwork! I'm sure it can be done within Bryce as well, but I'm still trying to position those darned lights witin Bryce correctly. I know there is a way to position one thing and exchange it with a light, - but for the life of me I can't ficure out how that is done. I've tried Alt+click, shift+click Ctrl+click. and nutthin' works. l Peggy; the Appletree was posted for you! :) If you hadn't told me that you'd like to have it, I'd prolly not have pestered the computer wiz here to get that computer up and running again. l

I knew the rays where postwork, but I'd still like to know how they where made :) The skysettings where for the clouds :) I still have problems pointing spot's correctly too. I just use the trial and error method. It takes lot's of ploprenders :) It would be so much easier if you could just point the spot at a null object or something.

Duplicate the layer your working at (I had masked the lilly in the front, and used the rest of the picture as my background layer), then apply a filter to it. For this ray effect, I used radial Blur, and the zoom effect. Move the center of the zoom effect to where you want the rays to shine out from. I dragged the slider almost ALL the way up, and then applied (if I remember correctly) a overlay to the layer. You can experiment with the different layer types, Lienar light might give an interesting effect too. then play with the transparency slider till you get the effect you're looking for. You might have to use more than one layer, and use different layerkinds; dodge, screen etc. Hope this helps. :)

Cool. thanx. I'll see if I can use it in a pic sometime. Layering is one of my strongest points in postwork, so that should not be a problem :)