Ok, here is the deal. I received a pic of a net friend a while back and recently I decided to try and duplicate it the best I could in Poser. Personally I think I did a pretty good job but she does not think that I did. I want you opinion, am I overestimating my talent on this one or did I do a pretty good job?

Very close and very very well done. The only things that I see that made need a little improving on is the face needs to be a little rounder up by her cheeks and her nose needs to be a little more rounder as well. Other than that, you have yourself a match!! Again, Great work! Jack

The area between the eyebrows is very different as well as the space just over each eyelid. -JH.

In the Poser image the eyebrows and hair have sharp edges, but they are fuzzy edged in the real image.

That is very very close. I can't see anything wrong with it that Jack, Jeff, and Anthony haven't mentioned - very fine work indeed! Paul

maybe try Travelers sneer morphs to give her that cute little sneer like in the picture:) Great Job on her so far FastTraxx

It looks like you might need to add some eye shadow around the eyes on your poser model. Other than that you did a good job.

You're getting close..keep at it. The mouth seems a bit too wide and the top lip curve needs just a tad less curve under the nose. The nose isn't even close except possibly the profile shape of the top. Nostrils need shaping and smoothing..the tip seems more blunt. The eyes are to hidden by shadow and makeup to really tell...you could use this same "trick" in the Poser version. The forehead seems a bit off, but difficult to tell here.. Don't get discouraged..this takes "multi-tweeks" and "multi-week" to get someone's likeness. Hope this helps.. Foxhollow

If after all that work my "friend" said it doesn't look like her... I'd get a new "friend"... nice job, regardless... pick someone who doesn't need a dog collar.

I think everybody said what needs to be done for the most part. Have found that when looking at yourself you can be very critical if it doesn't match exact because you see your face and know it so well and also perhaps may not want to admit "I do not have that puffy of cheeks" but good likeness all in all with the litle tweeking..Think there is a morph for the lips that might help too ... Mine is ffrom Zygote called lip process but it changes the shape of the top lip so it has a little less of a divit and more curve on the outside .. Good luck

I didn't see anyone mention this, maybe they did and I missed it, but the first thing that came to my mine is "color." Your friend is a very bright white, your poser character has a darker skin. I think everything else looks fine except for that. And whoever said about the area between the eyebrows. That can be done in photoshop, same with the eyeshadow. I'd rotate your camera angel just slightly. You're off by about half a milimeter.

and a question. where do you guys find those cool shades?

I think the shades are by Hokusai, but I don't know where his files are these days; he was dropped by geocities.

As far as likeness goes, I think some of us need to step away from the poser paradigm and take a look at the two pictures from a purely asthetic point of view. We posermaniacs tend to easily forgive the limitations of poser, whereas those coming from the outside are much more likely to be critical. My girlfriend has a hard time being impressed by all but the very best poser work. From a non-poser point of view the two images have very little in common. The face bears almost no resemblance in its shape to the real person, the poser model has very different lines and curves. The hairline is very strait as opposed to the round one that the real woman has (as do most of us). And very importantly in a black and white picture the skin tone of the poser model is much too dark. I don't mean for these comments to be discouraging, but if we really want to have poser art taken seriously outside of our tight-knit community here we really have to push our standards the next level. Keep up with the good effort!

Cool work! Just by initial impression, less "bow and curve" on the lips and the nose a tad more "bulbous". The Posettes nose is too 'perfect' (Not to disparage your friends nose).