I am working on creating the Hubble Telescope picture of a stellar nursery (the famous one with the "finger-like clouds"). This is my first attempt with Bryce. Used Photoshop LE only to blur the clouds a bit. Please feel free to comment. Any suggestion would be gladly appriciated. peace jquest

clouds looks great but the space ship...

You may look into transparency/refraction/reflection settings to make the "cloud" blend into the background better. You may want to adjust the xyz scale of the cloud texture in the material editor. Perhaps look past the spaceship(perspective as it is - is odd. makes the cloud look small or the ship is emensely(sp) large - on a galectic scale). A good time to figure out if the spaceship or the "finger like clouds" is the subject of the pict. (good start.)

Perhaps you want to make the clouds feel more like part of the background, since i get the feeling that the space ship is the real bjective of the picture. If they clouds were moved back a little and a subtle haze added you might get interesting effects, it's really pretty cool though.