I really like the lighting on the second show, great stuff! Is there a pink light in the first shot, that I don't see? Because there a pink fragments in the lionhead.

How do you blur the scene for DOF? Box-, Gaussianblur or something else?

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I was too tired to do that with Photopaint and I also wanted to begin with XML code for my project, I thought that was the best way to start with it

I was very suprised that colorpicking in JAVA is working actually very well, just a few lines of code to do that.