Quote - When you see a render where the skin blooms yellow, it's because that artist tried to compensate for non-GCed materials with increased lighting. I can spot that a mile away.

However, I guess it depends if bright-yellow skin is acceptable to you.

If you are indeed curious about GC, have a read of any threads by BagginsBill where he explains the whys. If then you still aren't convinced, enjoy your over-exposed, yellow-bloomed images. :biggrin:

See, this is what confuses me. I don't use GC. But I also don't get bright yellow skin in my renders. So I actually don't know what you mean.

To be sure, my renders are not as bright as I might like, but then neither are the photos that come out of my Nikon. But a little color correction and curves fixes that in both cases. There's no need for a billion lights or for blown out highlights in an overexposed photograph. But then maybe it's that my monitor is actually decent enough to show some detail without using the thermonuclear setting? Maybe my images would look dingy and dark to someone else...

I have read a lot (dozens and dozens) of BB's threads. I wouldn't have posted my question if I'd found a satisfactory answer, however.