Photoshop CS2 has an excellent Filter called Lens Blur. It is kind of like the plug-in that was talked about in this thread... http://market.renderosity.com/%7Evue/backroom/backroom.html ... The thing about this filter is the better the alpha controlling it, the better the blur and depth. The best image to use for the alpha would be the z_depth of the image you render in Vue. In fact, it is perfect. The problem is that the z_depth is placed in the "Layers" side in Photoshop and not in the "Channels" side. How does one put the z_depth info into the Alpha side of things? Here is a video tutorial of the Lens Blur filter in CS2 and how it works... http://www.russellbrown.com/images/tips_movies/Hocus%20Pocus%20Focus.mov ... Thanks for your help... Gareth:)