I just thought I would post the final largerimage here, it is called "Speak Master, your Servant is listening". I did solve my lighting issue with the light cones . I ended up duplicating my entire file and called it light cone,changed all of the objects to a pure black color and made sure I had just the lights I wanted on and did a render. I then went to my 2d app and used this light cone layer and used the "add" for this layer, it worked fairly well. The light cone layer only took like 10 minutes to render in Carrara at full size so it was pretty quick . I did several layers like this , I also stacked the layers in corel photopaint and adjusted the intensity which gives you more control of the lighting. One thing I should say the realistic sky setting has to be turned off or else the black areas of the light cone layer arent pure black and when you combine the layers things don't go well, this was causing me problems for a while. Anyways , thanks for the previous comments in the last post where I asked for help as I did use these ideas too.