If you have trouble grasping "bloom" see this post =)

Here's an example of "bloom": http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=224Too funny.FYI, I finally figured out my bloom problem was that instead of RGB black I was using 75% grey to get the hull to be a bit illuminated. Turns out that I don't need to do so at all, at least on the 11' version.Patrick