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 In fact I created a shader group for V2 for him to go along with the one he
created for V3, and he was very pleased and appreciative of my efforts. It's not like I'm
some sort of noob that just picked up Poser yesterday.

i never said you were.  in fact, i was assuming you weren't.  otherwise it wouldn't matter to you whether it was done in Poser or postwork.  because a newbie doesn't have a bias towards a certain type of solution.  it's all equally hard.

Quote - All I am saying is it is a bit disingenous to pass your work off as a Poser
render when the reason it looks the way it does is because of postwork.  Someone
just coming into Poser starts wondering why his/her renders never come off looking
that good and then gets the idea they have to go out and buy other programs to
bring their work up to snuff.  How about instead we show people what can be
done with Poser and Poser alone? 

then don't use V2 or V3.  and don't use textures.  otherwise, it's much more disingenuous to newbies than if you do postwork.  i can't say how many different beginners i've seen become disappointed at what only Poser could do, and they didn't have a bit of a problem with postwork.  they could use image editors, but they couldn't model and texture.  mostly not online beginners, either.

and it's not disingenuous, it's how CG is done.  but it is disingenuous to say what you're concerned with is pure Poser and then bring postwork as the major issue.  what you're concerned with is postwork, and that's a personal bias.  if it was just show what can be done with Poser alone, then all those DAZ figures and bought content and textures would be a bigger concern, because they're much more prevalent.  or the renders that are done in other apps, making it seem as if Firefly can do stuff it can't.  or the number of renders with custom morph that make it seem like figures are better than they are.