Great tutorial Kage! The backgrounds you make are great but as for the render, I'm the same as everyone else. I like to mess around with the Render Layer rather than just putting it at the top. Take my Duel sig for example. I put the render with him in it and on top of his layer, I put the Color Balance layer and then on top of that, I began my brushing. Then I messed around with the Renders Blending mode. But good job on the tut man! I'll give it a try your way and see what I come up with. You've come a long way from what you call as the "good old days" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img].