Though a long time Daz Member and user of Daz Studio, I still haven't figured out how to get realistic looking renders similar to ones merchants provide here at Renderosity. I consider myself as being computer savy and tend to figure things out but despite reading numerous tutorials here and other places along, I'm still getting images that are not realistic. I was wondering if there there are scripts or other tools to achieve the images I desire.

Thanks

Got an example of a specific realistic one you are going for? Some are postwork masters...others are real good at lighting.

So many reasons some may look more realistic as said above postwork, lighting, then there is morph and render quality, the skill set of that artist.... Examples would be good...

Here are 2 examples featuring grainy and other, with fireflies. I just find it's a hit and miss with Iray lighting setting requirements. What's interesting is the character rendering qualify isn't as good as some of the background textures. I have to provide postwork effects to get softer looks in order to remove the graininess or fireflies.

Grain and 'fireflies' are usually eliminated by longer rendering times and lighting.

I'd say your main problem is lighting. I'd pick up a studio light set (I use ones by Inane Glory) and take a close look at how it's set up, at least if what you are trying to accomplish are portrait pictures. There are a couple of vendors here that put out some good light sets also, I'm partial to the IG ones though.

To reduce grain and fireflies, you can also double your render dimensions and downsample the final image. To get a 2000x2500px result, render at 4000x5000px and reduce the file to 2000x2500px in an image editing program.