Hi all. I am new to poser and I was wondering if there was a tutorial on using the lights. Or if there is someplace that I can download lighting presets. Everything always looks so yellow orange colored. I want to make it so that the poser people look more real. with softer lighting I have changed the colors of the lights but I am not having any success. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

There is a tutorial I recently saw that is very nice. http://www.craigburton.com/pages/posertuts.html They are sorta slow to download, as they are some sort of streaming java, but it was a very nice tutorial.

Thank you Kevin. I will have to give that a try :) To bad it is in that format. I cant print it out to follow it.

Someone is supposed to be reworking it. But it is a format that Craig feels comfortable working in.

Kevin, Thank you for the link to the lighting tutorials.

You might also find a book on stage or film lighting at a half price tpye book store. The problem with Poser (at least v. 3) is that with 3 light sources, there's not a lot you can do, and as far as I know gels are completely out. Basic lighting theory says that you have a key light, which is your main light, and a fill light, which should be shifted into the complimentary color of the key light. In other words, if your key light is yellowish, your fill light should be bluish. This technique can be found in paintings going back to the Renaissance. If you have a white key light, then your fill should be a slightly bluish grey, because the human eye tends to perceive warm colors over cooler ones, and presented with white will always shift it slightly toward red or yellow in the brain. Also, I've found that if you pick a neutral (grey) as the highlight color in the poser renderer you loose some of the orange cast of the figures.