I want to take a skin texture from Poser (one that has real looking skin, lips etc) and turn it into a goth style texture.  Essentially I want it to look almost if not completely like a Geisha type texture with pale white skin and red lips. 

I have lots of Poser skin maps and instead of buying a new one that has this effect, I want to create it myself with my existing textures.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial that does this?

I dont want to do the effect after the image has been rendered, I want to do this effect to the skin map then apply it to the model and then render it.  That way I only need to do it once and I have a new goth skin texture to use over and over.

I appreciate any assistance anyone can offer towards this matter.

G&C

Use Curves to lighten the skin texture.

You might want to make use of adjustment layers so you can mask out areas you don't want to lighten. Also, it'll be non-destructive.

Now this is what I wanted.  I just briefly played around with the curve function on a face map and started to quickly see the desired results.  It will take lots of experimenting but this certainly looks promising.  I thank you for your assistance.

G&C