Well I got Poser 6 the other day and wow I have alot of catching up and learning today, I played around with it for a little while  and just created somthing to practice with and see how things work. Now I know she is far from perfect heck I have hair going right thru her face. I did a little post work and would just like to know what people think and where/how to improve it. My only post production program is photoshop6.

just need to move the hair on either the x or z axis, or failing that, rotate it on 'y', and that should help (heaven knows I've had to do it enough..;)

Quote - just need to move the hair on either the x or z axis, or failing that, rotate it on 'y', and that should help (heaven knows I've had to do it enough..;)

The sweeping to the side was my attempt at a wind blown style still needs work, I think

 

Hi Viper.  I Like it!

Got P6 about 2 weeks ago. What have you found to be the best improvements over P5?

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I like it... Suggestions: Try moving the hair forward on the Z-axis, too. Jessi has a big forehead. You might want to soften the muscle definition on her torso in postwork. Or not, depending on personal preference. I would suggest playing with her expression morphs and maybe move the eye positioning. I hate that thousand-yard-stare thing. Jessi's default texture is not very detailed. Aery_Soul has a tutorial at the attached link to use the full capabilities of the Poser 6 material room with any texture. You might have fun playing with that ;-)

Nice pose, interesting lighting, basicly this looks great to me, but you asked how to improve it, so what follows is mostly critical. I think the image should be lighter and have much more contrast. I'm not keen on the skin tones, I think they should be more towards the blue and a little more red. The highlights in the eyes (on left image) are a nice touch, but perhaps a little over done. The left elbow could use some post work. The lock of hair on the forehead could be softened at the edges. I find that a good skin texture makes a big diffrence, investigate what is available for your figure. In the end, remember that this is just my opinion, and highly subjective. Ten people would probably give you ten diffrent answers. One more point. Part of the knickers is hidden in the hip, you could use a magnet to pull it out so that it is visible again. I am posting a comparison image to show how I would postwork it (click on the image to enlarge it), hope you don't mind me taking liberties with your image. The postwork was done in PaintShop Pro 5.

I took liberties on top of your liberties lesbentley, to illustrate my take on the power of postwork (again, hope you don't mind viper).

I don't like to 'paint' too much on a render using brush tools (maybe a correction or smoothing here or there), but I often play with levels and colour adjustment and have found it pretty amazing how far you can push the basic render without destroying its output quality from Poser (or any other app) too much.

I agree that the final look is a completely subjective choice - mine tends toward the photo-realistic at the moment, hence I made adjustments to levels and colour in Photoshop 7. No other adjustments other than with Levels, Colour Balance and Hue/Saturation. I went for a fairly high contrast (much lighter in the highlights) and killed the saturation of the colours as well as changing them more towards the cool reds. Thus Jessie now looks quite highly illuminated.

I work predominantly with still images, but even for animation it is quite possible to make automated batch adjustments using many of the tools within Photoshop (not sure of Paint Shop Pro) to allow for fine tuning and enhancement.

I think your posing is great, and the hair problem is best solved IMO by careful positioning using the x/y/z ans scale translation dials, and then using a magnet (or two) to achieve the blown effect. Magnets scared the hell out of me until I took the time to learn them properly (see Dr. Geeps tutorials) and now I make so many fine tune adjustments with them.

Well since we are already taking liberties with viper's image, I decided to do a bit more postwork on it. After looking at the image a bit more I decided I did not like the shadows on the thighs, the left thigh looks like it has a flat area at the front (this is a common problem with Poser). I used mainly the Smudge tool, but also the Clone brush and Paint brush to soften the shadows. I find it best to keep the opacasity of these tools low, with a value somewhare between 4 and 10, and work up to the effect I want by going over the area repeatedly. I also reworked some other areas as indicated by the arrows, again using the tools mentioned above. The left hand image is the same as in my last post. Viper, hope you don't mind us messing with your image.

Thanks all for the tips and help, and nope I dont mind the use of the image for basis of teaching/showing methods of PP.