I'm having a very hard time making my dark-skinned texture work on a poser model, James.

I noticed that one dark-skinned model I had was a P4, but the skin texture was (for lack of a better way to put it), pink with brown diffuse color applied. That worked for a P4 figure, but working with James seems to be much more difficult.

I haven't seen any free textures for dark-skinned people, and I am kind of upset about that and the fact that nothing comes with poser for this, but that's not really the point of the post.

When I apply my texture, the face/head tends to be overly dark. I applied a few more lights to my figure and that helped brighten the scene, but it's never quite "brown", more of a gray or other color. Even in the face room, turning the "African" dial up tends to make the head texture green/grayish which I still can't figure out.
Does anyone have experience with this and suggestions? It seems like I need to make my African skin-tone "pink" then apply diffuse color but that doesn't really work or look right. I've seen other people with Black figures but I can't find a texture to explore what it is they've done- plus any of those figures are for pay.

Thanks.

If you have M3, you can get some really inexpensive black skin textures here:

http://www.lluque.com/

One small trick that sometimes works: use a dark bluish-violet highlight (If you're using Poser, it'd be applied in the material room, set around 5-10%). It seems to give the skin a little more depth.

Making the skin gray then diffusing the color to brown worked well. Thanks.

Eventually I'll learn how to do a "real" texture, but this works for now. The face map was from faceshop pro so I already have enough work to do in post.

Thanks a lot!

Here'a freebie I made for Kelvin but you can adapt for James... http://www.sharecg.com/v/18642/poser/Free-tex-for-E-frontiers-KelvinG2

Not sure if you have tried or considered Apollo. He comes with an African texture set.

Something to try to do, in order to correct some textures, is to decrease the texture strength a bit by lowering the 1.0 value at the bottom of the image node to 90%. Then make the diffuse color a pale coffee/carmel tone. Very pale.

Dark skin can be pink or yellow. Green is usually the result of using digital photos. Green is as unwanted tone that afflicts many photographs of skin.