@bagginsbill:
Your right, of course. Postwork never can do the same as a shader, because a shader is able to response to light directly.

On the other side: A lot of Poser images aren't candidates for shaders. Backgrounds, for example. Or characters far away.

Poser does a pure job on images. Colorspace often is reduced, Dark parts generally have to mutch black. I do images with Poser for commercial resons for a lot of years.Not one was delivered "out of the box", without a typical correction in contrast-/color-dynamic and gamma correction. This was the idea behind the scipt I made several years ago. A command line utility until yesterday :) .

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