Good point, maxxxmodelz. Compositing and painting can both be classified as "postwork". My gut tells me that compositing several renders still falls under using P6 features, while painting over a render does not. Fixing up glitches of the render engine, adjusting color balance, cropping and resizing, this is all "postwork", but without completely altering the image. Sometimes, when needed, I "postwork" my renders this way. Adding clothes, hair and/or backgound by painting them over the render fundamentally changes the image, and those are techniques I am not proficient at (and have no interest in). So there is a fundamental difference IMO.

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