Hi all! I am attempting my first texture. I decided to go with the Daz3D Millennium Baby after being inspired by my one year old coming in rosy cheeked and tan from playing in the sun. I was going to do a photo texture but had problems once I ran out of skin around the immediate face area. I couldn't get any cut out skin areas to match without lots of blending. Then the blended areas looked nothing like the skin areas. If you look closely at the forehead in my texture you can see the real photo texture of the skin because I haven't blended it out there yet.

The hardest place I had matching up was the lips. I just wasn't sure where the colored part should end on the template. Any helpful hints there?

I plan on doing other textures. I would like to do photo textures but what do I do about the edges or areas that need to be blended? I read cakeone's tutorial but still am unsure how to go about it.

Feel free to pile on the criticisms, tips, and tricks!!! I'm just learning and need all the help I can get!

Default Texture My Texture - Still a work in progress
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Same lighting and head morphs, no post work. Darkened the
nostrils on mine because color was off. Any fix for that?