This one is dedicated to someone that is very special to me, so I want it to be perfect before I send it to him. does is look good? is there anything to improve? thanks.

I like it, the lighting is well done and I like the projected image effect......I've never seen that, is it part of the texture/how did you do it? Krel

I did it in Photoshop. I took another rendered image and changed the layer from Normal to Color Dodge. I erased the rest of the layer (where the layer is outside the woman body) that's how I added the fairy and the scales nexts to the woman's nipple.

That is a great image. I assume your friend likes this kind of artwork, so he should really love your gift.

nice ideas and well done.Also the little one dancing on the book!Maybe some rug on the floor,looks very cold on the stonefloor.there are some good in freestuff

good idea! I will find a rug for the poor girl :-)

I can see her smiling now. "Now that I've posed, might I have a robe too?!"

It looks great. I do have a couple of suggestions. The book looks kind of odd open that way. Is there any way to have the part not propped up by the closed book laying flat on the ground? Also, perhaps you should try using opacity instead of color dodge on the fairy as an experiment. Dodge makes the fairy look superimposted on some parts of the woman's body, and I am not sure that's the effect you are going for. You might want to attack the crease of the main woman's armpit with a touch of postwork. I always have to fix poser armpits after a render to make it look a bit less plastic. I really like the composition. It's a great image.

That is stunning, wow. Beautiful image. There's one suggestion I have: the tail of the fantasy wrap keeps catching my eye. It looks like it's not connected to the rest of the figure, which I realise is because of the shadow there, but it gives the effect that it's coming from her hand instead. Maybe make the "gap" a little more visible? But it's stunning. I'm sure your friend will love it!

About the books props, I added the closed book because the opened book is not posable, so I had to find something to put under, and maybe that would look reasonable. about the dodge, I think that this is the effect I tried to make. if I would use opacity instead, the black background of the fairy will be visible. I cloud clear the background with magic wand, but it wouldn't look the same. about the wrap tail, you are right, I noticed that after I posted the image. by the way, the first reason that I posted the image was because I was not sure about the composition, you see, I studyed photography once, but it was years ago. :-) Thank you all for the compliments (I forgot how fun it is to get compliments) :-)

The black is easy to get rid of in photoshop (or any image program). In fact, I should write a tutorial on this, but here is a short version. 1) In poser, choose a background color that appears NOWHERE else in your figure. Usually neon pink or green works well for this. 2) Render. 3) In Photoshop: Select, color range, use the eyedrop tool to select your oddball background color (neon pink or green or whatever). 4)You now have a selection. Just delete it. To ensure smooth edges, I often feather the selection before deleting the background, but you can also simply delete and then smoth the edges by hand or with blur to get different effects. This method works well for any non-complex poser figure. For figures with serious hair transparency, I switch to Photoshop's new tools for lifting images out of a background.

Excuse me, kieraw, what is the "photoshop's new tools for lifting...." is that a plug -in or a working method? (I am just a beginner with photoshop, I got the book as a present not so long ago:-) )

That is a lovely image! I especially like the little faerie dancing across the book. She is lovely. I think the colour dodge on the winged faerie works, but the left side of the book does look a little odd, hovering like that. Perhaps if you put a rug in the scene, you might do a little post work to put wrinkles or rucks in it tht might be supporting the book? I think if you rotated it so that the edge were against the floor, the angle would be too steep for the dancing faerie.

Attached Link: http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa090501a.htm

Go to Image | Extract. Extract came into being uh.. in version 5 I think, but in version 6 Adobe beefed it up considerably. I think it does a much, much better job now. The concept is like this: You outline what you want to extract using a paintbrush tool provided within the extract plugin. You then "fill" in what you want to keep with the bucket. Photoshop automagically figures out what you want to keep and what you want to trash based on your outline. There is a decent tutorial on the basics at the link I attached.

Oh hey.. maybe your dancing girl could prop up the other edge of the book? Just a thought. =)

If you save the rendered image as a tiff, it has a perfect selection and mask around it in the alpha channel already. Load that mask and you're in business! Or you can try lighten instead of dodge, then adjust the transparency if need be.

Great tip, scifiguy. =) I rarely use tiffs (too giant, no hard disk space) but it's an awesome selection technique. =)

I agree, good tip indeed. I would never thought about it myself.

Actually if you save it as a .psd it comes with that perfect alpha mask too, and nothing beats that alpha mask, including the tip above about selecting. ;) Try it, you'll be amazed at the difference.