Nope, I'm not a purist. As maxxxmodelz mentioned, whatever achieves the best results in the least amount of time is the best solution. There are always people who will push a product to it's limits just to see what can be done for fun (the Hedy Lamar CorelDraw cover, for instance, or sophisticated drawings made with an Etch-a-Sketch). A lot of tricks and shortcuts can be learned with playing around with the many obscure options that a program has. With limited time to draw, I'm more interested in what's expedient. If there's a new trick in Poser that will make my renders better and save me some postwork time, I'm all for it. Like Stewer, I've found it much easier to punch up lighting, once I've achieved a look I'm happy with in Poser, using Photoshop curves than to keep trying to tweak the lights in Poser and render them to see if they look like they do in the draft mode. I think the hangup some Poser purists have is that the end result is no longer a Poser image. There are some images where the postwork leaves little behind and somebody can quibble whether they belong in the Poser or Photoshop gallery, but it doesn't really matter to me. It's a great image or it isn't and I'm not too concerned about how the artist categorized the final results. Anybody who gets angry over techniques needs to grow up because the general public couldn't care less about how an image is generated, whether it's Poser, Maya, Photoshop, or good old oil paints. I don't think businesses or clients care either as long as the work meets their needs. Unfortunately, some people invest so much time in one technique that they develop an attitude that nothing else is worth exploring. That's fine for them if they're enjoying what they're doing, but it's silly to think that's all there is to life or art. There's nothing wrong with specializing. Many artists become masters in their techniques. If they're rational people, they don't get upset because others explore other artistic media. My second ever Poser image was blasted by a 3D purist because I hadn't created any of the models (which he wouldn't have known if I hadn't credited the creators). It's really ridiculous when somebody gets upset over HOW an image is created. That kind of an emotional reaction says more about the poster than the artist.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon