about photorealism, postworking "policy" or pure poser policy", i would report the following exemple: about taking the guts out of poser to achive the best results without postowkr (or few, compositing mostly), i always was amazed and puzzled abotu most japanese poser related websites and galleries, where people out there seems to have a "policy" about pure poser renders, with few postwork, and yet achieve stunnign results i would damn myself to learn how to do the sae... see most pictures (guest or from the site owner) on batlab, or studiomaya, or yamato's work... most are pure render ! some are even close to photorealism, provided they use a very good texture first and ipressive ligthing.. Most surprising: many people out there only use p4 or propack, not p5, and so cannot benefit tfrom some material, illumination or other features of p5 lets meditate on that but i respect too photorealis through postwork. the only thing i would find a bit dissapointing would be to use poser simply as a base "ocedar" mannekin to give yourself the outlines or such, and paint most over it.. while then not learn directly to draw everything in the paint software itself ?