In response to an earlier inquiry about my postwork (or lack there of, as the case may be ;), I thought I'd do another little mini-tut, using my latest gallery image. Due to my lack of artistic talent, I rarely do much actual pixel-pushing on my images. To try to fill the void between straight poser renders and something more pleasing, I resort to more technical means... Starting from the top-left in the image above, I made a base image, with depth cue on in this case. In the top-right image, I hid the floor to get another render of the character alone, with depth cue on and bottom left, with depth cue off. As you can see in the base image, the skin has no life and little contrast... I added two layers of the no-depth-cue image on top of the base. One set to 'screen' (80% in the end) and the other one set to 'soft light' (50% opacity) after a slight gaussian blur (1.0). The screen layer is used to brighten the image and the (blurred) soft light layer adds contrast and softens the image at the same time. The final layer in this image was the deph cue'd character... this layer was set to 'darken' (30% opacity) in an attempt to try to get a little more depth to the lighting (pretty subtle in this particular image). Anyay, the bottom-right is the end-result after adding my signature - I think that the skin looks much richer and vibrant (creamier, even) in the final image... And no pixels were harmed in the creation - just some 'layer fun' ;). [I like fairly saturated, high contrast images, but you might want to play with additional adjustment layers to adjust that]. Cheers, - Keith