I've been creating textures for some time now, but not nearly as good as those that are presented in the stores or at DAZ. I was just curious about how those of you folks who create the excellent high resolution body and face textures for such as Michael and Victoria. Where do you get the photos you use? Do you ask all your friends and relatives to pose for your digital camera or what? I've wanted to do some better character textures, but I have no idea where to get faces that don't violate copyright (i.e. celebrity photos, etc.). I guess I'm just too shy to go asking my coworkers and others to pose for me. And I'd have to limit it to just the faces. There's no way I'm asking anyone to allow me to photograph their body. I think there's especially a need for more Michael textures. I'm not a good enough artist to create them myself and the photographic ones are obviously the best. My curiosity has just gotten the best of me. Melanie

Oh, and the ones I do create aren't nearly good enough to share, so I haven't posted them in the free stuff section. That's why I want to know how to do better ones. Thanks, Melanie

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I subscribe to a magazine called 3D World- issue 11 has a fabulous tutoral on realistic skin textures. (Not photo textures- I would think those would be much more difficult to manipulate and control.) The tutoral is by Bill Fleming, Komodo Studio. at www.komodostudio.com .

Same for me melanie I find it really hard to make good 2D work - Textures or Rendering.

I love textures. I have more fun doing that- I am just barely a newbie at poser, but I have a whole library of textures I've made with Moray's texture editor and Coreldraw's Texture. (I spent about 6 hours working on a "wedding" texture that would look like matte lace over that irridescent crinoline. Unfortunately, it got lost in my last crash- backup time! I'm re-doing it.) Once I understand a bit more about how textures import and act in Poser, I'll put some up in freestuff. :)