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I like the facevery small and sweet! As you say, the lips do need work. Look in the Tutorials section here there is an excellent tutorial linked from this site, here: http://www.exquisitedesign.com/tutorials/lips.html You can actually handpaint very nice lips with a bit of time and attention. With what you've shown you should be able to master the technique very quickly! The eyes too are a bit of an attention-grabber they are WAY too green. Even alarmingly green eyes are not that green. Try toning down the saturation, or maybe using a different, larger texture map for the eyes with better resolution if you're planning on doing close-ups.

Morph looks pretty good. Perhaps using a bump map to shake up the surface appearance and turn down the brightness of the teeth. I usually set the teeth reflection to a light grey and highlight to a dark grey while setting the entire inner mouth to a dark grey and sometimes black, that way it doesn't look like she has a 'mag-light' in there ;-) Aslo need to blacken the inner nostrals. There's been a lot of threads lately about "skin imperfections" that I've been reading, it really gives a more 'realistic' look.

I guess I forgot to switch my monitor settings before I started working on the eyes... I always do that! LOL! Thanks for the tips, very useful!! I've never done a character texture before, so I need all the help I can get. :o) Merci infiniment! :o) Caroline

A suggestion for more detailed eyebrows. Assuming your using a fairly detailed map, say 1500x1500 or more, Ive gotten good results from cutting the eyebrow area out and enlarging it about 3 times the size. Then using a small brush do your eyebrows. When youre done rescale to the original size and re-paste into the face texture. Obviously you lose a lot of the fine detail but it still looks better than doing it at 1:1 scale. This works well with scanned photos too, if you merge the result into your skin texture. Igohigh is right about skin imperfections. Always remember that Poser will add nothing to your texture apart from light and shade. Everything else, wrinkles, moles, skin pores etc are your responsibility. B)