Poser, Photoshop -- Hello and thank you for taking the time to view my work! This image has a kind of two fold purpose. It began as one of the two plain demos for my Essential Materials 02 manual. One of the many, many advances I've put into this new version is enhancing my manual with several more example images per entry, including one showing many different options. Since I've also expanded the number of materials from 20 to 48, this project is... prodigious to say the least. I wanted to start doing more fun images, but this manual has been kicking my butt. Anyway, I was thinking about the conversation with babaugaliano on my lighting tutorial about how realism was only a starting point, and I decided to try to work this image a bit more than I've been doing recently. And hopefully show a small and simple example of what you can do with a realistic base. I took that original image into Photoshop, touched up the hair a bit (which is almost always necessary), and added Curves and Levels adjustment layers, which gave me a bit better visual drama. Then duplicated the render layer, desaturated it, applied an auto level, and gave it a Soft Light blending mode. That really made the skin pop, but darkened the clothes a bit much, so I roughly masked the clothes. Then I made a sort of vignetting gradient layer, and put it on Color Burn at 40%. I duplicated that layer, put it on Multiply, upped its opacity to 100%, and layered gradients on a mask to control its effect and not make it so simple. It wasn't much, but I think it's a lot more striking and artistic than it was originally. Credits: Alice 5 Morph (RDNA) and V4 WM (free) by Aeon Soul S4, A4, and Morphs++ by DAZ3D Corset Dress by Biscuits (Rendo, free) Five pairs of sling-back pumps by idler168 (DAZ3D) Garden Deluxe Part 2 by ARTCollab (DAZ3D)