I was wondering if there is a way to like bring real hair through on a poser figure? I have seen what looks like "real" hair on figures, and often wonder just how is it done. Mind you I have been messing around in PS hoping to figure it out.  Thank sin advance for any advice

oops... about the Thanks in advance above, did not mean for it to say "sin"

hey, any time you can get an advance on sin, it's a good day...;)

Usually the end product is a jpg or png file. If you open one (say a freebie hair texutre) you'll see several parts 'painted' on, usually in a series of strips. This is done (ordinarily) with UVMapping, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax...;) But I think they create layers in Photoshop (or Gimp, if you want a free equivalent).

For more information, check out the UVMapping forum, or wait here for more helpful answers...;)

I think you mean a real persons hair on a poser model, right? Ths is PSP work. Find a picture of a model with a hairstyle you like. Take the picture into PSP (or whatever program you use) and get rid of everythng but the hair. Save as a .png file. When you pose your poser model, make sure the pose of her head arms and shoulders matches up with the model's pose that had the desired hair.  Then take both images into PSP and resize them and line them up so that the hair fits on her head. You will probably need to do some postwork to make it look natural, and you will need to mess with the lights in the render so that the lighting on both hair and figure matches up. Is that what you meant?

-Sarah

Thanks pakled and sarah, I have been pretty much trying both methods, but thought maybe I was missing some sort of "super hair render program" (LOL) but I will keep plucking away until I obtain the results I want.

:)