I am trying to match the dark crisp shadows from the figure in the original picture in my poser scene. The original figure for example is in the bottom left.

I have 2 lights so far, an IBL probe to light the scene with a poser 7 probe attached, shadows off & an infinite light for the shadows.

If I turn up the light colour / intensity to get darker shadows, the figure is too bright.

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Suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

at the bottom of the preview window there should be 4 circles. If you place the mouse over the second from the right you should see shadow color at the top of the preview window .

That lets you set the shadow color for the scene. If you set it to BLACK you can adjust shadow intensity in the light parameters .

In that render the shadow colour is black.

:blushing: ok duh I just realised I can make the intensity more than one, I thought one was the max

I wanted less dark shadows and when I asked about it, I was told to go into the parameter dials for each light and lower the shadow intensity.  It works really well.  I usually change it to  between 60 and 80.  If you want darker ones, try increasing the value.

You can also go into the properties area of the parameter dials and turn off shadows for certain items/parts.  I always turn off cast shadows for hair that is neck length or longer as I don't like the black voids at the neck that long hair tends to have with shadows turned on.

I had the intensity down to 80%, because over that the scene was too bright. Increasing the shadow from 1 to 1.6, seems to give the effect I want.