Quote - Good point I see alot of technical terminology and settings listed
and semi-naked figures in an empty universe.
that Look Different from each other
but none particularly realistic or impressive IMHO
I am Frankly having a hard time seeing where this  new rule of Gamma correction is creating better renders overall than  THIS four year old poser 6 render

but that just me.

Cheers

No, it isn't just you. Most of us never even thought of or considered using CG until some 'well respected' persons started telling that you need CG and that your images are no good without it. As with almost everything in the poserverse everyone jumps on the bandwagon and follows the hype.

Personally I cannot say that the quality of the images have improved since we're all using CG, far from it. Personally, I compared my images and noticed that CG in the end isn't really improving them at all, there's a lot more to improvement and relying on CG will not do it at all. We can create stunning images with CG and without CG, but the better images shown are still the ones without CG. They've got lively colors, vivid colors, great mood and so on, something that CG tends to kill.

Quote - Exactly what I was thinking. Suddenly Poser Pro 2010 has GC and none of the art that was rendered before is valid? Clearly that's not the case. But I wanted to know why and where the obsession with this new feature came from.

It was there before PP2010, Poser 7 Pro has it also. It was advocated by a few people when Poser 7 Pro came out telling us images really look crap when you don't use CG. Funny thing is that the people who told us that and are very actively pushing CG are 'affiliated' to Smith Micro in one way or another.

I've noticed lately that a lot of Poser users believe that using certain features and extra's and at times gimmicks will improve you work a lot. It just doesn't look good without it. You cannot live without certain add-ons, even this thread mentions a number of them. Funny thing is that the best images are those who do not use all of this stuff.

If you cannot make a good image without relying on the extra's no one can supposedly live without, you cannot make a good image with them either. But.... it's easier to use the extra's, instead of learning to use Poser well.

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