I'm painting black hair on a character and without rendering it looks ok. When I render the picture everything looks good except the light bounces off the black painted on hair making it look flat/washed out like it's painted on. Does anyone have any tips about avoiding this type of light reflection? Thanks in advance.

You could created a reflaction map, it's a black and white image you lug into the reflection or sectacular node. Basically the black areas donr reflect, white areas do. Greyscale areas artially reflact according to how black the tone is. Using your image ma with the hair, you could adjust it so that the hair area is black, the rest being white then use that as your reflaction map. John

OK. Thanks, I will definitely try this.