one of the things that always gets me is how much a render can change in what little postwork I do to it. So today I thought I'd share a before and after side by side. on the left is the unaltered render as D|S spit it out to me. On the right is the final postworked piece. Postwork: Duplicate the original render, leaving the original as the background for repeated copying and use later. layer 1 (copy of BG): gaus blur 20 pixels layer 2 (copy of BG): adjust brightness/contrast to 30/50 and set it to grain merge at 50 layer 3 (copy of layer 2):set to multiply at 25 layer 4 (copy of layer 2): set to overlay at 25 layer 5 (copy of layer 2): set to screen at 100 layer 6 (copy of BG) : set to dodge at 50 I then merged all visible layers and then copied the merge to a fresh layer leaving all prior layers turned off. with the merge I ran it through 2 gimp script-fu's from the internet: gothic glow and landscape painter with a radius of 5 Now the exact #'s and number of layers varies piece to piece. But for basic postwork it's usually along these lines to get colors and vibrancy right. Credits: body - genesis, skin - hexatible, kishka hair, perfect 10 poses, infamous hat, dark moods background props, lights by me.