LOL...now there is some incentive for me to quit biting my nails down to the quick, eh? But I can look at toenails, and will. I see the yellow, but I think my very, very slight red/green color blindness might be keeping me from seeing the green...or maybe it's just crappy lighting in my house. I'll try it outside today.

Now that's intriguing...what shade of green is human skin without the blood, and which layer gives the green, and how is it affected by melanin? I changed the edge blended color in alternate diffuse to a dark yellow green but now I'm thinking I ought to change it to the color I actually envision blood to be, and see about tinting that skin green.

Darkened the lacrimals and I think they do look better that way. They seem to go better with the greener sclerae.

Okay, yeah. I think when the percentage of input that has nothing to do with what I asked for reaches 90, I'll just ask the thread be scrapped. I thought that asking for help here was supposed to be a positive experience, not a gang leap onto things you have already said you're satisfied with. I'm beginning to regret venturing into the forum with this.

Okay...tried the lip mask, just turned the default lips for this face texture green for the alternate, added some gloss. I popped a bit of pale green in the primary diffuse color of the lacrimals, as well as keeping the original saturation on the eye map for both lacrimals and specular. And then I remembered to add my AO, which I totally forgot in the first tests.

Any input on the lacrimals, sclerae and lips?  I'm wondering if I ought to go for an even more softly feathered lip edge. I love the sclerae now but the lacrimals are still jarring me and I can't pinpoint why, unless it is just a subconscious rejection of green lacrimals.

Thanks, BB, I will have to try the lip mask. I have had the darnedest time finding the right way to make my lip gloss edge not so hard, and usually by the time I find the right (or closest, anyway) edge blend attenuation I'm up past 50 and it looks like she already licked the stuff off of everything but the center. This skin especially does not adhere to the lip zone, so it's a great example of what you mean.

Still will appreciate more input, but a note--the morph is not one of the things I listed as something I am looking for input about. I am happy with her morph. But I'd still like opinions on her skin tone, lacrimals and sclerae, plus the lips when I post an updated effort. Thanks!

Quote - Well I think the important thing is you talked to us and you know you're not alone, hey?

Even more fun - post here and ask for discussion on how to improve or take the image in different directions. I have a lot more fun discussing an image than making it.

I definitely know that now. :)  And I may just do that...I have an image I'm working on now that I might want some input on in a while!

Quote - > Quote - I'd probably say "yes and?" (and have done actually)

I really don't need anyone else to validate what I do - if they like it, fine.  If they don't, also fine.  I make renders for me, not anyone else (so far anyway)

If I ever get a paying gig, provided the customer likes the results then it doesn't matter if it's done in Maya, 3DS MAX or paint

That's a fine attitude, but it isn't actually apropros the OP's situation. The OP wanted to post an image on a gallery. The person controlling that gallery said it didn't meet the conditions for that gallery.

So in this case, if you are asking a gallery owner to show your work in his/her gallery, then you most certainly do require that the owner of the gallery validates your work. To say otherwise is just unrealistic.

In all fairness to her, because it makes me feel all benevolent and generous to say so, it's her gallery and she can decide what goes into it...but the emotional invalidation of her little knee-jerk fit about Poser was more personally insulting and daunting than not getting to use her gallery.  So the technical validation can be tied to personal validation IF someone lets it be, which I did for about a day. Now I'd had far more engagement and interest from just reading this thread than I would have from any number of passing comments somewhere else, and been reminded what's really fun about this craft.

On the warez issue--it startles me sometimes when people are just as bold as brass about that.  I've had more than one person offer me 3DSMax before, too, in a sort of "oh, you like Poser? Let's move you to a real program and see what you can do" gesture.  This is usually in response to my asking if anyone can just convert a .max to an .obj or .3ds format.  Because giving me four thousand dollars' worth of software is easier than just processing a file for me. o.O  Okaaay.

Thank you all for making me realize it really doesn't matter what someone else thinks! I appreciate that...I do put a bit too much stock in others' opinions sometimes.

As it turned out, the person in question WAS a CG snob after all. She made a point of telling me how many college credits she had in animation. I was so impressed I...yeah, something rude. Anyway, thanks all.

I do very much appreciate all the responses this thread has gathered. I think in this case I am simply going to have to write it off. The issue is, unfortunately, whether or not I have permission to continue to post my work in a gallery that the site owner had no trouble with letting me post in a couple of years ago, but when she found out that I don't actually model my own figures, that was the issue. Nevermind making my own textures and shaders and painting a lot of details by hand...nevermind creating my own morphs with magnets and deformers...nevermind creating my own lighting, backgrounds, doing my own postwork, etc.  All that matters to her is that I don't create my own meshes, so...she can (insert really crude suggestion about impossible physical acts here). 

I do find it interesting that this question brought up arguments between Poser and users of other CG programming, while I was thinking originally that my own question was based upon this person's simple dislike of anything that isn't hand-drawn lines on paper or in a painting program with mouse or tablet. Lots to think about there as far as how far one must customize to legitimize. A'course, when it comes to arguments between programmers and Poser users I tend to just think some people are snobs and leave it at that, because I've been to fairs where the ladies that make everything from scratch are very kind and gracious to the ones that use mixes, so I've seen pleasant manners demonstrated without the effort causing any harm to either party. ;D

I bought this gorgeous outfit for V4 at Daz. I should have taken some warning from the blurb that they'd included some "most popular morphs", but I didn't know any better. Got the outfit on my own V4 character (completely dialed, nothing custom) and realized they didn't have the normal battery of full body morphs OR the ++ morphs, so the set was useless to me without using magnets, which I hate having to do. I kept it, since it was cheap and I figured I could use parts of it in other pictures in future, but I never did finish the picture I bought it for.

Thanks much, you have a great day too! :D