Glad to help :)

About the dark nose spot -- Looks like the texture may have a painted in nostril? Try opening up your texture in an image editor and take a look. If there's two dark spots painted for the nostrils you can try cloning them out or moving them, render and see if it has any effect, and so on.

To be honest, I was surprised to even see it in the RO store, since it was my understanding that fetish wear was not allowed here.

OK now I can see the text. :)

OK here's what it looks like in Firefox. I can't read anything.

-->He told me that a complicated skin shader is only for cruddy textures, so I decided to see what I could accomplish without the shader<--

Wow. I'm have a hard time believing that a Daz employee told you that. Skin shaders can add a lot to even the most beautiful textures and are included in every Daz character pack that I know of that's been released in the last two years or so.

A__ has some lovely portrait packs which include poses and cameras. I use them a lot and they are very easy to tweak.

Wow! Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! And Happy Anniversary :)

The spam situation is a real pain. I've been using Incredimail Pro for a couple of years now and really like it. I can preview the email before downloading it onto my computer and if it looks like spam that got through the Comcast spam filter, then I just delete it. I tend not to even download email onto my computer anymore and use web mail unless it's something I know that someone is sending to me and that I want to save to my hard drive.

-->stephaniebt: are the seams as much of a nightmare as i've heard?  i've seen some texture artists express dismay over the high increase in seams, and i'm wondering how problematic you found that compared to working on unimesh textures?<--

It really threw me for a loop at at first, it's so very different. It takes some getting used to because the arm and leg seams aren't straight, they wind around the limbs, and then you've got the the difficulty of joining the legs to the torso at the top of the thighs. The eyes are way different, it was tricky for me to figure out where eyeliner went and to get it looking good when the eyes were closed. So yeah, pretty much a nightmare, LOL! I'm sure others will pick it up quickly though. I'm kind of a plodder. ;-)

While I was working on my V4 characters, I was concerned about the lack of an eyebrow transmap guessing that it might be controversial. Looks like my concerns were justifiable, from the number of posts I've seen about this.  Just out of curiosity, has anyone taken a look at the What's Hot list here at RO for V3 texture packs, or at the most popular recent releases at Daz and determined if those characters use eyebrow transmaps or have the eyebrows painted on? I don't have all their characters to check definitively, but it looks like Aery Soul, Blackhearted, Thorne and Sarsa, Handspan, etc. have eyebrows right on their characters' head textures. I didn't see any recent V3 releases at Daz that looked to me like eyebrow transmaps. It's interesting that so many top-selling merchants are not using transmaps and are still selling very well. I am not discounting anyone's complaints about not being able to change eyebrow color, just suggesting that "painted on" eyebrows (which are usually real eyebrows from photos and that naturally match the model's skin tones and her hair color) characterize many character packs, and is not unique to V4.

I got the email too and bought all the skin photo packs. Nice to get some texturing photos where the people aren't covered with scabs and pimples, just lots of lovely freckles and interesting moles.

I'd vote for Clive Owen too, he would be perfect!

On my receipt the email is support@3digitalcrafts.net.

I just couldn't resist, I had to get her -- she's really, really cute! I fiddled around with some shaders on the dress and made a face morph using the dials. The face is very customizable. :)