@Giana OMG. I have to echo Wolf's response above! You NAILED so many things here - strangely with a couple angles I hadn't considered. And the exchange of ideas, knowledge, techniques back then was priceless. I remember Art Dorety sending me a Word file on how to do some wonderful details in Vue. (I no longer use Vue, due to the subscription model it went to, as you mentioned - I miss it, but we're living on SS so we have to be careful. My only sub right now is Adobe - I'd roll over and die if I couldn't have Photoshop! 😝)

I've been sitting here, digesting this wonderful input and thinking about it, and you're right about it being too much of a popularity thing, and not about the art. Everyone likes to see their name and uploads at the top of the "trending" page. But like Darkglass, that's not why I do this. I do it because I love it, and enjoy the process of figuring out "how do I do this, or add that, and how do I keep it from distracting from the main subject?" Thank you and Darkglass for reminding me.

And like I said to Darkglass, If you stumble across one of my efforts and see something that could be improved, PLEASE feel free to leave constructive feedback! I love it when that happens, because it gets the creative juices flowing even more freely.

Oh, that poor horse..... Not touching that...... Not going there..........Nope, nope, nope...... Wolf will be sending one of his furry 4-legged buddies over to eat my left arm. I'm a left-hander. I NEED that arm! 🤣

G'night all! And THANKS!

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage