Hello. I have seen great Poser renders where the image have an "airbrushed" look to the figure rather than the usual "3d-rendered" look done in Poser. Examples of this can be found in the newer works by ToxicAngel here in the gallery. Can anyone point out to me any tutorials that can achieve this look? Thanks.

I don't know of any specifically that I can link you to, but here is what I like to do for that type of thing: First, when you render, make two renders. The first one on a solid grey background and just the figure. When you export that render save it as .tif format so you have an alpha channel to work with. Then render your full image with the background and figure and everything. You can save that one as .jpg format. Now, open both renders in Photoshop. Go to your solid background render and click the Channels tab. You'll see the Alpha channel there. Hold down shift and click that channel. That will make a (nearly) perfect selection of your figure. Edit:Copy that and then paste that as a new later into the full render, then save that as a PSD in case you mess anything up later. Okay, now duplicate the figure layer (just in case) and then make the first figure layer invisible. Now, you want to lock the transparent pixels on the visible figure layer. This is to make sure that you don't accidentally draw or smudge the edges out too far or anything. In order to lock the transparency, look at your layer pallet for the word lock and click the first icon beside the word lock, the white/gray checkerboard square. Now you should be able to edit this layer without accidentally going outside the figure. Okay, the first thing I do is smooth the skin. Alot of people use the smudge tool for this, but I prefer the blur tool. I choose the blur tool and then start going over all of the skin with a soft round brush at 50% blur strength. This just makes the skin smooth, helps smooth out all of the freckles and imperfections in the skin. If you want freckles, you can paint them back on later. Now, you can stop here if you like the way it looks. Sometimes the blur tool is perfectly sufficient for giving that smooth, airbrushed look. If it's not quite right, or if you want a bigger different between shadows and highlights, then you'll have to airbrush. Once the skin looks about as smooth as you want it to, duplicate that layer (precautionary measure again) and then make the older one invisible. Now, select your brush tool and turn on the airbrush feature. Set the flow to 100% and the opacity to around 15-25% (whatever feels right to you when you start to use it. I like to go pretty low.) Now, here is a great feature that alot of people don't know about with the brush/airbrush tool. You can select colors from your image by holding down ALT and clicking an area. This will help you match the colors of your image. If you want a color that is lighter or darker you can select a color and then just edit it to be a bit lighter or darker, but you'll always know you're using the right general shades if you select colors directly from the current skin. Okay, now you select a light color from the skin and start slowly going over the lightest highlights on the skin. Just enhance the highlights and make them a bit smoother. Then do the same thing with the shadows. Select a darker shade from the skin and start brushing over those areas. This will take the most time to get right. If you really have a hard time with the airbrush tool, you can "cheat" at this. Instead of using the airbrush tool, you can take your duplicated later and start dodging an burning. You will want to set the exposure on these tools very low and build them up. I like to use about 10-15% exposure so I have more control. If it's not light/dark enough with one stroke, you can make more, but if it's too bad, you have to undo, and that wastes time. Then you just use the dodge tool over the lightest areas and the burn tool over the darkest areas and you'll get that nice contrasty look that alot of airbrushed images have. I hope I explained things well enough for you to understand. I haven't really done alot of tutorial type things. Feel free to ask questions if you need help and I'll do what I can. :)

Thanks Miss Tara for the great explanation. I never thought anyone would explain it so clearly as you did. I really do appreciate it.:) You should do some tutorials. You're good at it.

Thank you :) I hope it helps.