Hi, I've been getting alot of Emails/msg's about the Water droplets I put on my "Caribbean Winter" Image. So I thought I would explain here :) The water drops, face, butterflies in background, shadows,etc..., are all post render work I've done in photoshop. Here are the to pics. The "before photoshop" and the "after photoshop" versions. BEFORE PHOTOSHOP: http://www.colba.net/~solo/1024x768dry.jpg AFTER PHOTOSHOP: http://www.colba.net/~solo/1024x768wetskinb.jpg

This is a great tip!!! I've been struggling with this effect for months and had not succeded. One thing I did discover (mostly by observation) is that wet skin has a high specular reflection. So one thing I've been playing with is rendering (in this case in poser) with that "plastic" look for wet skin, and then "duller" reflection for dry skin. Here is a link (contains frontal nudity so please be aware). http://www.3dxtc.com/g2/bath1.htm It was made from 3 poser images (1 dull skin, 1 "plastic" skin and then I rotated the camera for the reflection - post Bryce days), Then stitched it all together post production. Again - great tip - Now I'm anxious to combine these two techniques - Thanks - VanQ

Oopss..I read my own post and realized that I forgot to explain what I did...hehehe Ok...here's what I did... I took a pic of a glass window with water beeds on it...and layered it together with my rendered pic in photoshop. Then I erased the glass window layer everywhere exept for the parts that where on the skin. Then with a little tweaking here and there...voila...I got the skin texture you see now. BTW: Don't worry about the "frontal nudity" VanQ... I havent fainted yet from nudity...especially the poser kind...hehehehe :)