Quote - In every Poser Manual including the Poser Pro Reference Manual 2010, "A Message from Larry Weinberg" has been the same, his ambition was "to draw like the great old masters". And many Poser artists come close.

My aim with participating in this thread was not to bash Poser, but to make people do more postrender work and not only dress up a figure and publish as it is. That is a pretty silly procedure, if you ask me.

I think we agree on the workflow.  Poser is a tool with limitations.  When it comes to still images, Photoshop is a tool without limitations.  There is nothing you can't do with digital images in Photoshop.  If you can't do something it's because you don't know how to yet.  If you bring a Poser render into Photoshop and it doesn't look real, don't blame Poser, blame yourself.  You can paint hair, paint skin, correct bad bending, add to or create a background etc. etc.  You just need to know how to (and I'm not talking about you personally).   When Larry Weinberg talks about drawing like the masters I doubt he was talking about drawing in Poser.  Poser is great for reference when painting humanoids.  It's just a tool.

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