"This is Poser and Firefly we're talking about, Vintorix. Not VRay or Maxwell or any of those high-end renderers. Given the constraints and limitations of this renderer, those procedural materials look pretty darn good."

But I do have VRay Robyn, in C4D. I was argumenting about shaders in general - not only Poser shaders. I far prefer VRay over Firefly, and it has nothing to do with shaders.

To sum up I have never said anything else that I am a beginner, but I rotinely export and impor:t between different programs. Should I use shaders, my whole workflow would crumple like a house of cards.

"Postwork is postwork. Again, like using a camera, I can do that too"

I hear you. But just for the record, becoming an expert in Photoshop is far more difficult than becoming an expert in Poser. ( I am speaking generally not about you - I am sure you are an expert in Photoshop)