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Jonas; In trying to map an image created in Time Arts Lumena on a mesh created in 3ds3; I have noticed a couple of things recently: 1. The image comes up in 3ds with a reduced contrast range usually favoring the higher end of the contrast range.(i.e. much lighter darks than I created). I believe the problem is in 3ds3 because; I can call up the image in a 3rd party viewing utility, and the image looks as I created it. I call the same image with 3ds3 Render\View..\Image; and it has reduced contrast range. 2. I started with an image pulled from the World Creating CD added added to it in Lumena, and then tried to map it on a mesh object. The part of the image from the CD went almost completely dark while the part added in Lumena had the problem described above. These are problems that have popped up since I upgraded to 3ds3 from 3ds2. Any ideas? Thanx; Dave