be sure to set 'multiply specular by opacity' to 'off'

that's the way I feel about my copy of P6

Please excuse me for sticking my nose in - I ususally post at DAZ and just lurk over here.

Quote - I was quite struck by a couple of Greypixel's images: ~apple of my eye~ and ~Killing Me Softly~
expecially for the use of lighting... ...so I started tampering with lights and tutorials to understand how to get that "bright & uniform" lighting effect... and I was not even close after a week of attemps :huh:

Now:
1- I know Greypixel is using DAZStudio, while I use P7
2- I am not a professional artist, but rather a "weekend Poser geek", so my knowledge of lighting is somehow limited to "practice and heuristics"

While I won't presume to speak for Greypixel.. I do know that he (? apologies - guessing on gender) has been using Dreamlight's lighting products for D|S.  You can learn more about Light Dome Pro, Studio Light Pro and Mood Master at the DAZ forums ("Nuts and Bolts" forum) if you're so inclined.  Note that these are D|S only and not free.

Others have posted some links to stuff online , but if you're willing to spend some money I'd also recommend "Digital Lighting & Rendering 2ndEd" by Jeremy Birn as a lighting reference.  It's accessable, platform neutral and comprehensive.

Hopefully Greypixel will stop by and and speak to specific techniques.. I continue to be amazed at his work.

Quote - Appears to be IBL (Image Based Lighting), but DAZ|Studio can't do IBL

This is not strictly true.  Pendragon released a free shader and light set that includes an environmental light that does IBL, Global AO and even radiosity, although the 3Delight engine's photon mapping featires are not enabled in D|S as of yet, so the radiosity is reeeeallly slow.  But the AO and IBL work nicely.  Those interested can find links in the "Developer Forum" over at DAZ.  There are also nice skin, hair and velvet shaders for D|S included.

Poseworks PWSurface shader also does IBL very well. of course, you have to use it on every surface in the scene to get the desired results and render time will go up to match... but the results are worth it.

I certianly don't mean to turn this into a D|S vs Poser discussion, just correcting some misperception is all.

Returning now to lurk mode.

No problems here -the morph loads fine and if you use the 'no shader' texture freebie the texture loads okay and is a good basis for making the materials look better.  I haven't worked much with the expressions though...