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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Strange composition.  My eyes keep drifting towards the (empty) carpet on the
floor, but nothing's there.  Good sense of depth.  Nice picture on the wall.

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
A few suggestions... Try to change your highlighting to make things less
"plastic". Enhance your landscape so that it is less blurred. And if you want a
centered picture, well, center it!
Note that JPG compression is tunable, so that you need not reduce -and thus
destroy- your picture to get under the 250 kb limit.

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
Very dull scene. Usually in galleries the patinings are highlighted by
spotlights
whereas the rest of the rooms has dampened light. This image has what I call
"photoflash lighting", i. e. one very hard whiteh light source coming from
the main direction of the camera.

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From pgrooby@trimble.co.nz:
To drop the image disk size, just tweak your jpg quality.

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From i_emackay@mountains.net.au:
Would be better with different camera angle and lighting. The feet of the posts
tend to dominate the picture.

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From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se:
It's a pretty painting. I think an area light
to soften the shadows would have looked great.

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From arcana@sinbad.net:
A good, basic image. Some extra touches that could have enhanced it: 1) Put
either
a frame around the picture, or add somethickness to represent the wood base that

canvas is wrapped upon. 2) There's a dark shadow falliung at an angle from back

center to foreground right. But the viewer has no idea what the source of it
is.
3) The overlapping sections of carpetting lack discernment from each other. 
4) Stone, even stone carved from the same source, has some degree of variance
from 
slice to slice. If you vary the pattern some on each slab of stone on the wall 
behind the painting, it'll add to the realism.
Nice image though. :{)

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From msfl.bf@fasonet.bf:
The image could be improved by letting the ropes hang down a bit in the middle.

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From ptdawson@voicenet.com:
The lighting and textures are great. For the jpg size problem,
try Paint Shop Pro (shareware), and adjust the quality setting until
you get the correct output file size. Start at 99 and work downwards!

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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
This image needs more detail.  My first impression was that, I was looking out
a
window, not at a painting on the wall.  Try using the POV width & height
commands to
do the original tracing at at 750 X 563


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From web_user@flex058.dijkgraaf.wau.nl:
The scene looks a bit dull. The lighting is too 'cold', you should have created
a warmer lighting and try to focus on the painting instead of on the entire
scene ,maybe by using some spotlights. You could have tried to make ropes
hanging down (part of a torus if you want to do it simple) instead of the
straight 'velvet' bars you have now, to get some creativity into the scene.