You can still use GC in Poser 8, if you do it with shaders. You could do it your own way or use the Wacros in my Freestuff to change a shader in a GC-Shader. I haven't tested them with P8 up to now, but from what I know it should work.

For most people, GC too complicated because the incoming textures must be changed too. Tone mapping with HSV brings very similar results, but without changing the textures and materials, if I did not get something seriously wrong. I haven't tone any "final" renders with P8, but from what I've seen up to now, HSV set to 2.2 works for me.

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Sail out to sea and do new things.
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