Hmm. Did a little experimenting. While it is only a few minutes work to add Diffuse and Specular nodes and wire them together along witht the reflection and then add the gamma correction at the end, the results are not satisfying.

This is an example of a shader where I have already built into its basic structure a bunch of hacks that result in the correct appearance on your screen, taking into account the need to lighten the dark areas.

When I apply the manual gamma corrections, it washes out and no longer looks like I intended it to. Also, if I just use that shader and apply Poser Pro GC, it too looks washed out.

This is a shader that just doesn't work if you're going to "correct" its output at the end. It already has a bunch of stuff in it that needs to be removed, to allow the lightening to happen at the end.

Are you in some way unhappy with the appearance?

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