@jonstark: You're absolutely right about the renderer! I use Carrara not that often because for me the GUI is not as easy as the Poser one but I'm slowly learning, I discovered the skin shader trick to reduce the highlights and shininess only recently...wish I had read your comments weeks ago!  But I have still to learn the lightning, maybe it's not more difficult than Poser's one but to learn that also took a while. I hope I get more into it with those Carrara scenes. Your image looks great but I never understood the hair room in Poser so I'm fearing Carrara's dynamic hair is even harder to understand.