I repeat: You MUST have the gamma set right on your monitor. It took me a LONG time to get mine right. I am running an Nvidia GeForce GT520. I use the Nvidia Control Panel's Optimization routine to get the gamma set correctly. You must do it EXACTLY the way the instructions say. If you skip a step or say "I can't make it look this way" you are not doing it right and you will get off kilter results. Work with the brightness and contrast settings on your screen until you get the results that the routines says you should have. I cannot stress how important this is!

Moving on to Poser.

I had no luck at all before getting Poser2012 using GC. I am quite certain it was because I had no clue what to turn on/off/up/down/etc in the material room.

Since the advent of Poser 2012:

1. Load a character, preferably one you have owned for a while and are familiar with.

2. Render it using no GC, but with raytrace lighting turned on, so the shadows are good.

3. Render it with GC turned on. (Looks faded... right?)

4. Run EZSKin2 on the figure.

5. Run Scene fixer (if you have anything else loaded other than the figure... like clothes.)

6. Render with GC on.

7. Be in awe of how delicate and natural the colors and shadows look.