Quote - Just to illustrate my point about the "Woderous Wares" and the textrues, here it is a text done with one texture that I made lighter in PhotoShot using the Levels adjustment. It took a couple of minutes to do and another couple of minutes to set up the scene. One mesh light.

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BTW, I setthe subdivision for the vase material to 1, the original geometry is a bit rough for a close-up like this.

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So......here's my try at the vase.  I lightened the texture in Photoshop but something is amiss. Mine doesn't look like Paolo's.  I used subdivision 1 as well.  It looks like he got the expensive vase and I got the cheap knock off.   Help please?