> Quote - > Quote - Do not forget that if your skin shader contains additionally a specular component (which is usually white), the result will get more desaturated and brighter than the image texture alone. > > Yes, yes, yes! This is my problem! Not GC at all. It was the blinn settings. I changed the reflectivity from 1.0 to .75 and did a few other tweeks to BB's Max Trick as delivered through the EZSkin Script and I like what I have now. Thank you so much for pointing me in this direction!

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