Okay, I been attempting your steps, and came to the conclusion I'm a complete idiot when it comes to this, I'm doing something wrong completely your instructions are simple enough but I can not get the same result. Two possible questions could be the problem.

First when you use the brush for the first time on a transparent layer is there a particular color that makes it easier to work with I tried grey to black shades thinking that would make it easier to adjust color. but not sure

The second step I got lost on was:

1. Click on first layer, hold ALT and choose H/S adjustment layer. Check "group with previous layer" and click OK.

When I attempt this step I don't see any options to choose H/S adjustment layer or group with previous layer. Then it hit me by H/S adjustment layer do you mean change layer mode to Hue or Satuation? I tried both and still had problems. and still dont see an check group with previous layer option. So I'm completely lost there.

Today in my ignorance I realized something I was doing wrong I was using magic wand tool when you said magic lasso tool, I total mis read that so I'm going to try that now but that step 9 still threw me off so if you could clearfy that i might figure it out from there :D

Thanks again for your advice its very kind of you to take a few min and help people.

Chris

thanks i will give it a try, and post my results or any questions that might come, I really appreciate the help this is solving a mystery for me in so many ways thank you again

That is awsome  tihomir, I been trying to duplicate what you done and seem lost though I took my brush and made a new layer and inserted into the document I went to the paths options and like you mentioned and the options are pretty much greyed out so I'm obviously missing something.

Do I need to use the pin tool and make paths with that first? Also you mentioned layers to color parts independently, I figured that much and pretty much know how to use H/S I use that alot, I love that little tool. But getting the path selections is stumping me if you got some more free time and can post something more detailed I'm very interested in learning this.

Thank you for your help so far

Now  brushes in my sample image above I see many uses for but its pretty much mono-toned so a brush thats complex like that how would I be able to add colors to diffrent parts of the image the brush makes. Would that be a matter of just making one layer one color then make another layer of another color I want to use. then continue until I get all colors I want then slowly erase parts I dont want on each layer?

Sorry if this all seems noobish lol but im really trying to find out to what extent I can use brushes in my projects.

yeah honestly I cant really say what I can use to brushes to create, the possiblities are endless. Weather it be using a brush for one of my webdesign layouts or to make some cool backgrounds for my 3d renders, like i said the possiblities are endless, I do have several ps books most are more like learning the program, many dont really cover "we going to use brushes to create this" type advice.

I do have 2 books they dont cover what i want to do with brushes but they have been good with other things Down and dirty photoshop tricks and classic effects. But deffentaly i want to learn to do some abstract stuff I got it on my list to learn. Your right photoshop is a big program, but I found it has a pretty big learning curve atleast for me. Just the brush thing has had me stumped for a while and I wasn't ready to give up and say oh this is out my league.

But I'm one of those people that always wanting to learn more so what ever i can take away from here im sure i will use somewhere done the line

hmmm so its not so much using the same brushes over and over but using diffrent techinques with filters to achieve the appearnce. I guess I was sorta on the right track i been playing around with dupilcating layers and playing with layer styles maybe play with hue/saturation features.

But yea these are the type of tutorials i came across when doing a search just never connected uses techniques in those tuts to try on brushes. Still I like to see tips and techniques other do so hopefully more will add to this thread so we can all learn something new

yeah after playing with layers animation in poser 7 i see what you mean and how its the same but not the same. I pretty good with manulating layers like you said render them seprately and then adjusting them in photoshop. I was just hoping this could be away to save steps specially with the current images is a bit beyond my scope of peiceing together in photoshop.

I dont have a image to post at the moment but I will and look for suggestions at a later date , but basicly its a figured wraped in a thorn bush. This making lots of poke throughs and what not, not to mention I know when I render the elements sepeartly getting them to peice back together in Photoshop they way they looked when I render them all together will be a bit of challenge. But on the bright side its something new to learn and Well come back here when I get to a point im stuck.

Thanks for all your input gang

Okay I contacted e-frontier and this is what they told me there are bugs in the cs3 exporter that they are working on they told me for now to just export from poser and a obj file and import into cs3 from that. Now i'm back to playing with it trying to figure out how to get my object to load with textures in it :D hope this  helps any others that had this problem

Thanks all for the tips and advice I just got home from work and going to cool down a bit from working and then jump in to poser and play with my cameras and thanks for the link slinger just quickly browsed through them but i will read more of them later tonight too they look interesting and I love poser tuts I always find something new to try.

I will post back with any questions i come across and progress thanks again

Hmmmm that seems to make more sense to why head morphs load and not body. Then I guess my best option here is to go back and load V2 up and just use that :D thanks just wanted to see if i can use something new. But I guess for this project its not going to work with plan A so guess its off to plan b if anyone knows away to add some morphs to the v3 to v2 body i would be courious to know how its done.

Thanks again FrankT

well i didnt think ram would be an issue the system i have has 1024 ddr ram so i assume that is plenty to run my OS and poser, which is usually the case when im working in poser i usually dont have any other applications open except maybe sometimes a broswer window if im following a tutorial or using an image as a refrence or something like that.

As far as render issues, well it seems to crash alot for example it crashed on a simple scene of v3 with a dress on and 3 spot lights. Not a real intensive scene but i was just trying out how it works well on vista.(which if i had my choice i would of bought a system with xp but unfortunatly when i went to buy my new system they had already made the switch to all systems comming with vista).

Any how it crashed when i moved the auto slider in the render setting from draft to final. I guess the trouble im having is figuring out which programs are causing abnormal things to happen since both vista and poser 7 are new software both have bugs. But im a bit disappointed I waited a few months to purchase my upgrade for P7 and figured e-frontier would have some bugs worked out and be more prepared for Vista. But Maybe they are spending more time counting they numbers in their check book rather then invest some time to get on the problems right away.

But as far those issues I would just like to see what people have for settings that are running the program on Vista with similar system specs as me to help figure out which software is causing which bugs. Thats all for now :D

No i dont have any version of Metasequioa, but I know there is a free version which I think my friend has any how so if im understanding you correctly you export it out of Metasequioa as .Cob file then use Crossroads to convert it to another format to import into another 3d program? is that correct. Just want to make sure I understand before I relay the info on to my friend?

Thank you Diolma that helps alot in getting me started in playing with some of the nodes in the material room,  hehehehe i just discovered the materail tab that addes diffrent effects to object, and it blew my mind, then again im eaisly entertained :D

But again thanks for the info and giving me hours and hours of personal entertainment in trying what you suggested :D

thanks thats alot to take in and should keep me busy for the next few days. Never really made a bump map so to speak, i started out with poser 4 pro and it didnt require a bump file so not sure if poser 6 is the same.

what exactly intails to make a bump file i seen them in many of my texture packs but like i said with poser 4 pro you just used the jpg file for bump in that version or atleast that how i was taught.