Genny, that's probably because Poser lighting leaves a LOT to be desired. That hasn't changed no matter what version you use. Fido13, let's be realistic here: painting over a render and rendering with a totally different 3D program are two different things. Fixing up what Poser screwed up by hand, and using a render engine that can do things Poser can't is totally different. However, THAT being said, there is NO WAY allowing people to postwork a Poser-rendered scene to no end is having a "level" playing field. That's simply not true, especially with the skillz some people have at painting in hair, etc. And being that you can't judge just how much postwork was done, then I feel there's only one way to make it perfectly fair to all... NO postwork, NO outside apps. I'm not counting Firefly for Poser5 as an outside app, because if you can produce great results with that thing, you deserve an award! LOL! Either that, or ANYTHING goes, so long as you used Poser to set up the poses and the props. Hey, fair is fair, right? ;)

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.