Do I need to adjust the preview window settings in some way? I've been using Poser since 1995, and it has maybe become too sophisticated for me. I don't really understand such things as nodes, or the proper use of bump maps anymore.

Anyway the second one is Skin Time Emerie HD (Ink black skin, normal eyes.), and the first is PA_Deni. Ink black eyes, normal skin.

Both are very nice, and both look fine in the final render. But they are hard to work with when I can't see them.

Could we see a shot of the abdomen shader from the material room advanced screen?

What happens when you run EZSkin2 against it?

Skree or OpenGL for the preview settings?

 It was OpenGL. Changing to Skree (which I had never heard of) fixed it. Thank you very much. Clearly I don't know what I'm doing. I'm attempting to learn EZSkin2, but still don't understand it. It says Victoria 4 (whichever name I give it) is an unsupported figure, and the box of figures to check contains figures I don't use, or have never heard of.

It will take awhile, but my time is limited, my tech knowledge of a bygone era. 

Here's the material room advanced screen for "torso". Unable to get "abdomen". Looks very daunting. No idea what's happening in there. :-)

This may be a stupid observation, but in looking at your selected object I see Andy2 and 2_SkinTorso. I may be old and senile, but man! That ain't andy2! What am I missing?

C~

 I forgot to rename it when I switched to Victoria 4. Even if I load a saved file it's still called the default figure name of Andy 2 unless I rename it.

Two solutions to this problem:

1 - Delete rather than replace Andy introducing a new figure or

2 - Delete Andy and save your new preferences under General Preferences.

Next time you open Poser, you will be presented with a new blank scene.

 Okay, thanks! I suffer from a certain timidity customizing Poser, as well as haphazard methods.