In addition to what Thip said: Create a camera, and adjust it's settings; it gives you better results than zooming in close in the perspective of front or user views: Make sure it's centerred on her face - that's easiest to do in by generating it in the top view, and then tweaking it in the camera1 view. (which, incidentally, has a ton of "lens" options in the camera quad. You may want to consider using a mix-map for the face. I don't think it looks too bad, in general a lot of Poser pores are way, way to big in relation to the facial mesh anyway, but tweak it, just set the bump to about 10-15 %or less. The eyes could use a little more texture in the iris, and maybe you could use a falloff map on the light for dramatic effect, and don't set it to pure white, soften it up a bit with yellow or pink/red. However, I think you made a really good effort - I really like the way you made the hair look, and I have seen many, many worse portraits than this one. ~s