Attached Link: http://ssgurl.d9games.com/gradswatch.jpg

I've never had this problem before but when I render in Poser 4 I get a weird gradient over large area with slight color changes (skin, shadows, etc.). I would say I have a decent understanding of Poser and like I said I've never had this problem before. But I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong. My render resolution is set at 300 dpi and I'm starting with a high res skin. I saved the rendered file as a PSD file as well.

Please Please
Any help would be great!

There should be a swatch at the top of this post showing a part of the render.

Thank you =)

This may be asking the obvious, but how big is your shadow map?

PS. The swatch is too indefinite to get an idea of what you mean. It looks like an amorphous pink cloud.

Attached Link: http://ssgurl.d9games.com/gradswatch.jpg

shadow map? (not wanting to sound stupid, lol).

i have cut a bigger swatch out, hope this one is easier to see

Thanks for that, but all I can see is that you have a seam issue on the texture applied to the human figure in your pic. In other words, the texture doesn't quite match up where it joins. As for a shadow map, each of the lights in your scene casts a shadow (or not, if you have turned shadows off) and it will calculate the sharpness of that shadow based on the size allocated to it (the "Shadow Map"). For a good, sharp shadow, you should be looking at a value of 1024 at least. If you select a light, one of the parameter dials will show "Shadow Map". This will tell you its current value; if it's below 1024, adjust upwards. If it's above... well, I dunno.

alrighty i've figured it out, it wasn't the lights but thank you for the suggestion. i'll remember to keep my eye on that from now on. the "seam" isn't really a seam it's part of the backgound. the swatch is from my PSD after I had started to apply postwork to other area of the image. thanks for helping!