I'm still taking my intermediate Vue class and this is from lesson 4 (of 6 lessons). We worked with the cloud editor and making our own skies. I started with the bare default sky and created this. My biggest problem was getting the cloud settings and render settings to render the clouds without graininess. This was the best I could do and still had to use the 'soften' brush in PSPXI to remove some grain. For a finished image, this could use a boat, birds or far-off castle-like buildings for interest, but I was pretty happy with the overall effect and decided to share. ***Bryce comments: I have been a strong proponent of Bryce and have always been proud of the fact that I was a Bryce user and showing what Bryce is capable. I won V6I big discounts and bought it. I felt that I needed to learn to use it and have been practicing with it. The other day I went into Bryce and had to stop to think how to use some of the controls!!!!!!! I'm torn between continueing with Vue and leaving Bryce in the dust. I feel like a traitor. I don't know what to do :( I wish that Daz3D would do something with Bryce besides let it languor. They need to increase the speed at which it renders radiosity and heavy atmosphere and mats. More believable clouds and trees would be cool too. Kind weird to feel this way about a software program, lol.