does anyone know where i can get a tutorial on how to make your own textures from start to finish your help will be appreciated thanks carloshax

Do you have a paint program? First off, to make textures, you will need one. On the Poser 4 CD there is a version of Painter 3D, which will do if you wish to use that. Many use Paintshop Pro, or Adobe Photoshop as well. More and more, I use Adobe Illustrator combined with Photoshop to make textures. Next... go to CD 2 that came with Poser 4, and load onto your hard drive the templates for the textures. Open these up in your paint program. I tend to use layers as I work, with each separate change on it's own layer. I first put the template onto a layer by itself. Set it's transparency to about 30 to 50 percent, so that you can see what you are doing under it. Select the area of the body parts, and fill this area with the skin color of choice, using the "bucket" tool most paint programs have. Next you begin the finer details. Get out the airbrush, and add a slightly pinker region to the cheeks, chin, forehead. Add a slightly paler region to the nose bridge, etc. All of this in an airbrush set to a low pressure, so that it builds up slowly. Turn off your template on occasion to see what it is looking like. I used to add alot of artificial shading to the textures, since I wanted them to look good to my eyes whilst laying flat. That is not good, I have since discovered. Let Poser or your chosen rendering program create your shading and shadows for you, it is an expert at it. All that bordering the outside of a body with a darker shade does in rendering is make a strange dark region when one renders from the side of the model. Once you get comfortable with your paint program, download some of the textures created here, and particularly on HappyWorld Land, and study how the various artists achieved the looks they did. One may learn alot just from trying to "copy" another artists work. Hope this helps :)

thanks for the help much appreciated carloshax