I like the theme for the picture - nice and peacefull. The one thing that feels a bit odd about it is that its sense of depth seems a bit out. The foreground, up to and including the rocks the people are sitting on looks fine, but the background trees seem to get small (due to increase in distance from camera) far quicker than the amount of along ground distance between the people and the trees would suggest. You could try making the trees bigger, but putting them (and probably all the other background stuff) a bit further back from the people. That might help the depth thing (hopefully).

Might want to zoom in on the folks just a bit - see what the whole thing looks like from a little closer up. grass color(?) scale or orientation of water texture(?)

Nice Pic As usual Colette I have to agree with the DOF comments above They are a cute couple!!! make em bigger do i see them in the rocks too? roch222

they were obviously sat in a dark room when the pic was taken - a spotlight aimed on them perhaps.Nice thought

Does anyone know how to antialias evereything in the picture except the grass texture? I really like the way the ground looks before it antialias'. I have a page that says in Bryce 4.0.1 there is a feature to do this, where you open the attributes window and hold down the control/shift keys and then close the window to shut of the antialias for selected objects to cut down on rendering time. I tried this and it doesn't work.(I have Bryce5) Maybe there is another way to do this in this version?

If you have some experience with compositing in a paint program you can render this pic with and without AA and composite the unAAed grass into the AAed pic. If you have a version of Photoshop, copy and paste the AAed version on top of the unAAed version. Then, using the magic wand tool, pick the grass on the AAed version. Be sure you select "antialiased" and "contiguous" and deselect "use all layers". If the wand picks parts of the pic besides grass, undo and lower the Tolerance number and try again. When you are happy with the area chosen by the magic wand, select the "Clear" choice in the Edit pull-down menu. Now the unAAed grass should show through the selected area. Just repeat for each grassy area. Also, if you'd like to mix the two rendered grasses a little, you can paste the original AAed pic on top of the new pic you've made and use the layer transparency slider on the second AAed pic until the two are mixed in a proportion you like. Hope this helps.

Colette, This one looks so much better. I look at real grass and it can look this color, but its still too bright for me - sort of surrealistic. Zooming in seems to have been the ticket ! I think tjohn is right a that post render effect is your best bet on the grass, but I don't have anything to add on that. very nice, - TJ

You need to tweek the proportions a little. Your Aunt looks like she is up to her knees in ground. Might want to think about taking this into Photoshop and adding highlights on them so they match the lighting of the scene better. Very nice idea though.

Colette, In case you didn't catch it already, I was looking at the link that Zhann provided regarding rain. In It is a series of mini-tuts including turning antialiasing off for individual objects here's the link to that thread. - TJ

oops wrong thread

here's the right link to the website
B Solutions.

Many Thanks TJ I will check it out.:))