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.

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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