i opened up Tim Laubach's Beautiful Woman texure in Paint Shop Pro, copied and pasted it as a new layer over the original, used a Flaming Pear freebie plug-in called "Ghost", set the layer's opacity to around 75, Soft Light, and this is the result....i like it, but then again i also like chicken liver sandwiches with honey mustard, so here it is for your approval/criticism............Ghosting, or none?????

Yea...but you need to stick to the horror chicks because they rock and the poser community needs more of that kind of stuff....Everyone makes simple women,you have a real skill there,I have all of your works and I love everyone of them......

cripes......that's the sort of appreciation that keeps me working.........perhaps this technique can best be applied to horror textures.....thanks for the compliment and the cold water in the face i needed to get me pointed in the right direction...........i keep putting off horror images, even though that's where my head is.....i'll pump out a few more horror flesh textures riiiiiight now....io have to sya, however, that my textures are just altered versions of Tim Laubach's creations......he's the real master, i just revamp them to suit my rather morbid taste.....but just the same, thanks again!!!!

Awesome.......

Wow, we have another Tim Laubach among us !!! This looks great !!

thanks, Schlabber....be sure to thank Tim for allowing me to alter and post his textures.....end gratuitous kiss-up....hehe ;) while i'm thinking of it, has anyone else heard of the Flaming Pear free plug-ins to which i refered in the initial posting??????

chicken liver and honey mustard? I thought chicken livers were best eaten plain....go figure. I like the effect I have not seen too much of the flaming pear plug ins, I think I have a trail of one of them....I will have to look that effect works well with the textues.

Nope - didn't used it until now - do you have a link ... ?

http://www.flamingpear.com/index.html http://www.flamingpear.com/goodies.html Here's a link to Flaming Pear home page. The second one is the actual page that ghost is on.

Oh my gods... that's sharp. Hey! Why do you have to just do horror? That'd be like me deciding I need to just do helicopters or space scenes... We need great work like this no matter what genre.