A quick tutorial on using 2 Simple and fast seperate Renders and combining them in your choice of Image editor (like Photoshop) to make what looks like a complex lighting render.

Enjoy!

Good tip.

I've tried the same sort of thing with an IDL render, plus non-IDL... and / or plus shadows only... and blending it all in Photoshop... and it worked well.

Recently just been using inverse linear point lights, in IDL-only renders though.

Most of the time I just render in one take... and quite often don't even end up tweaking levels, tone, etc, in PS, if I get the lighting right in that take.

I've found the fast progressive preview mode rendering of IDL in PP2014 a big help with the final-render-in-one approach... and firefly is definitely speedier now too, when doing this, I've found.

But the option of mixing down in Photoshop is a great one to have... and certainly affords a lot more control over the final result too.

Thanks for checking it out...

The main point of my tutorial, is taking 2 really fast renders (a minute each or less to render out), and doing a really easy post mix, the result being strikingly different than the 2 original renders.

This...

Plus this...

Makes This...

(minus the pinlight option I show later to add back a light over her boots)

Yeah there are a lot of ways you can get a scene to render within poser to get the one-shot-done.
I posted this one out for the "new" users of poser who are posting their "flat-looking" renders (because they havent learned the options yet in Firefly), hoping to perhaps bump-up the look of their renders.

We were all there once, our "first render" default settings in the pose room. :)

I'm amazed actually at the quality of Poser 10 renders (and render time) as compared to Poser 6 (which I had spent my most time with, besides Poser 4)

I did have a few tutorials touching on this before, but all were erased/lost through the Renderosity site-rehatch a while back.

I'll try to re-post my tutorials here and RNDA.