hi all!

here's the deal; i'm using tabala materials in the material room and when i choose an image and want to make that image lighter (or darker) how do i do that?

right now i'm increasing the diffuse value or taking the image to photoshop and adjusting there, is there another/easier/better way to do this?

if your working with an image you can lower the Texture_strength setting in the image node settings (it is the setting at the bottom of the node) this will lighten the texture.

if it is anything other than an image i think we would need to see a screen shot to recommend any changes

ahhh, yes i see now.

so this wont affect the texture in any other way besides the lightness and/or darkness of the image? what i mean is that the image/texture will still be there 100% but it is just the hue/saturation that is affected...right?

it does make the image appear lighter and does not modify the actual image file.

it also does not change the preview. to see the affect it must be rendered.

there is also a hsv node that can be used (poser 6 only i think)

it is the last node under math

this will allow you to adjust the hue saturation and  value.

hsv node is what i want i think. thanks tyger purr for your help!

Using an hsv node also means that you can plug the texture into something else at full strength. Very useful if you're using the same texture to control different aspects of a material.

Have you tried Ambient Color?

HSV etc introduced in P5 (IIRC)...

Don't forget that you can affect the brightnes/darkness of a texture simply by changing the "value" parameter of the diffuse node. Less than 1.0 makes it darker, more than 1.0 (yes, it can go above 1.0) makes it brighter..

Cheers,
Diolma