I have all of your light sets and tons of other freebies from you (as well as some bought things) and I'd just like to add my 'THANKYOU' to all the rest. BluesPadawan put it beautifully and I second that !

You have my sympathies -my eyes were fine until 2 years ago and now at 46 I have my computer glasses , my mid range vision glasses and my very very dark sun glasses for when I don't want to see anything anyway. a big PITA! But its nice being able to read again and see my monitor clearly but seeing the facial lines I was blissfully unaware of was a bit of a shock !

Oops- yep, I just did a Google search too and looked at more of Frazetta's work- I'm only slightly familiar with the Conan images not all the rest . NOW I see what you're after !

Have a look a Daz's Stephanie too. There is a useful pdf tut done by Andy Moraitis on his website that shows what can be done with her since she is made from the same mesh as Mike and 'muscles up' better than Victorias 1 or 2 . I don't have the site url anymore but you can contact him by IM here. What he did with her looks great !

Are you by any chance on a Mac ? If so I might have an answer having had a similar problem.

jonbalza- thankyou for confirming that !

Thank you all for the merging advice. Losing the desired effects is something I've come across before so I'm real glad for these tips ! LOL Hindsight is a wonderful thing - I just wish I was as good with foresight ; )

Thank you- I didn't know that about the blends/merge order. I'll go look up about meshes in liquify.

I have noticed that if a technical question isn't technical enough it can sometimes get ignored in the Technical forum. If the question has cr2s ERC and any thing else with abbreviations in it its more likely to get an answer there. But if its ' what do I do if ' and ' how do I ' and ' why? ' it seems to go better here. Thats my personal rule of thumb any way. ; )

Hmmm- I don't know about this 'pure Photoshop space' idea. What do you mean by Photoshop images being buried in 2D ? Is that based on hit numbers ? I tend to assume that people look at images because the thumbnail grabs them in some way not because the artist used this or that software. I use Photoshop more than I use Painter or Poser ( oh no ! I said the P**** word- just lost at least 80 % of people who have read even this far ) . Though I usually post in That gallery and occaisonally mixed medium and infrequently some of the other galleries I actually consider Photoshop my Primary Software- it is for me the one software I would not / could not be without. It is the part of my images that I enjoy doing the most and what I spend most time on. I use the same combinations of software for images I actually get paid for as well as my 'recreational' images I post here at R'osity. But I don't actually see the point of a PS only gallery -how many people do actually PURELY use PS ? How rigourously enforced would the 'pure' aspect be? There is a whiff of elitism here to me , especially as from what I've read in the PS forum over time, the pure aspect is sure to be rigourously enforced by a dedicated few who are less than impressed by other software. I always look in the ALL gallery because personally I think focusing in on software more than the images produced is a rather blinkered approach. But then what do I know .... I use P**** so couldn't be considered an artist anyway !

Ditto ; )

Hmmm,hard but its gotta be : Gini 3 ; ) Rockets 2 Pigfish 1

Well done winners! And thanks to Crasher and Hometown3D- I'm looking forward to more fun challenges !!

Not a bother and hope you get it figured out !

I don't know what else to tell you- in the P4 manual on p.34 it goes through the steps to save figures using the hierarchy editor to select exactly what you want to save in the library. Give that a try. Admittedly I'm using P4 with ProPack but I didn't think it made a difference in saving figures. I'm sure someone else with lots more knowledge than I will come along and have an answer for you. Sorry I couldn't help !