Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=804772&Start=37&Sectionid=1&filter_genre_id=35&Whats

I use Poser ProPak also I use Photoshop7 and recently took a look at Paintshop. Anyway what I was wondering after visiting the gallery here at Renderosity and other sites...

When you guy(and gals..LOL) do you work how do you go about making the render and the finished work look as if it were painted? See link to get an idea of what I am talking about. I am not talking just about the clothing but the figure and so on. I am sure a large part of it has something to do with post-work and such. So any advice?

Thanks for any and all help, much success to all of you.

I use PaintShopPro, basic filters and a drawing tablet... a LOT of drawing tablet. Works for me.

Main tips for postrender work: 1. Duplicate your first layer. This saves your original render from being destroyed by an 'oops'. 2. Render to Tiff format so you can have a mask for working 'behind' your figures. 3. Make friends with the eyedropper tool to pick up color from the picture for laying down new strokes. 4. Make friends with the smear, blend and dodge-and-burn tools for altering existing parts of the pic. 5. Be sparing of filter use, but know that they can help in a big way at times. 6. A 'painterly' approach often -lacks- the level of detail that a 3D render makes automatically. Decide where the visual focus will be, and be ready to 'sacrifice' other sections of the pic.
my two cents worth