Good Lord ... !!

You guys have really come through here and given me a lot more than expected - and especially you, bagginsbill. Thank you so very much for everything and for making me understand what can be achieved with IDL with some knowledge and experimentation. What you have contributed with is much more than I could have hoped for.

Now perhaps it would be a good time to explain myself a bit. When i "left" Poser, when it was in its P4 incarnation, I put everything I had into Photoshop instead. In due time I ended up doing beauty retouching work in the schools of Gry Garness and Amy Dresser and others alike.

Nowadays I still do Photoshop work but only what I myself find interesting enough to do. So now it's time to get to grips with Poser again and this time with a much better end result. The focus is to get as good a base image as I possible can with my (yet) limited skills, in terms of skintones and shading and from there take it into Photoshop to continue the magic. And of course, the better the base image the less I have to post edit in Photoshop.

I found the thread "A Dummies Guide to Indirect Lighting in Poser 8" from when IDL was first ...

And I give you a very special thank you for that, bagginsbill ! Oh yes - with that and other info having surfaced, I will have some serious evening reading to do for sure.  :) 

Did you  learn a bit about the shader nodes already?

Yes, bantah. In a fashion - but far from what I need to. So there's some catching up to do there too...  :)