Photopium opened this issue on Feb 22, 2015 ยท 33 posts
moriador posted Mon, 23 February 2015 at 11:33 AM
I found four things made lighting in Poser work for me:
IDL
GC
Adjusting the attenuation on lights
Changing the display mode for lights to lit wirefame so that I could see them in the preview and place them accordingly.
I still adjust with curves in Photoshop. But then I do that with my photos as well. I've never come across a professional photographer who expects the output directly from his camera to be a finished product. I feel the same about renders.
Edit: I also find it useful to get the lighting right in the scene BEFORE I place a full clothed and textured model in it. Experimenting with lighting in a severely stripped down simplified scene is so very much faster -- and you learn a great deal from doing it.
PS. Just as in the darkroom, the dodge and burn brushes in 2D editors can be your bestest friends.
PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.