I'm having a very hard time making my dark-skinned texture work on a poser model, James.

I noticed that one dark-skinned model I had was a P4, but the skin texture was (for lack of a better way to put it), pink with brown diffuse color applied. That worked for a P4 figure, but working with James seems to be much more difficult.

I haven't seen any free textures for dark-skinned people, and I am kind of upset about that and the fact that nothing comes with poser for this, but that's not really the point of the post.

When I apply my texture, the face/head tends to be overly dark. I applied a few more lights to my figure and that helped brighten the scene, but it's never quite "brown", more of a gray or other color. Even in the face room, turning the "African" dial up tends to make the head texture green/grayish which I still can't figure out.
Does anyone have experience with this and suggestions? It seems like I need to make my African skin-tone "pink" then apply diffuse color but that doesn't really work or look right. I've seen other people with Black figures but I can't find a texture to explore what it is they've done- plus any of those figures are for pay.

Thanks.