MaxCarna wrote:Hi Lydia02,
I would guess the main question is the source of light.
In your scene we see a direct strong source, maybe is your camera headlamp. I, at least, always select the camera and in the camera tab, turn the headlamp to off, default is auto. In the target model you can see that the main light on the face is coming from the left.
On the Daz Studio User Guide, section 7.6 is talk about the 3 Point Rig, you can google it also. It uses 3 light sources: key light, fill light and rim light. Is a nice set to begin. You can play with the temperature config on the light's panel, from cold to warm to see the results.
About the model, you can add makeup and change the color on the Materials on Smart content. Some vendors sell the HD add on to his model
She is not touching the ground.
I can't say if they don't use photoshop but you can come closer using Daz only.
Thanks for your reply. Still learning lighting but also was struggling trying to do model and bathroom set in one render. The bathroom set is a very small 3d set. Kept going outside of the set in trying to place the cameras and having to set cameras closer to the target area than I wanted to stay within the set. Will probably do models separate so I can reuse standard sets and just put a layered model into the scene. The bathroom set does look dark so tried to light it. What I posted was actually a light package to avoid the headache that manually placing the cameras was giving me. It lighted the model but overlit various bits of wall. The light package read me mostly covers a summary of the product and not a process or how to adjust the results of using said package. Will need to practice with it to figure out how to address. Didn't notice the model was above the floor until after the render was completed. Good point with the model look. Changing some of the model options will bring me closer to the vendor image. For example, the hair texture is darker than what I had tried. Makeup seems a bit odd as eyeshadow and blush are lumped together in choices that only show the eyeshadow. Appears that the choices with less eyeshadow also come with a lighter apply of blush. The texture option model ends up looking rather different once it gets rendered. Still guessing there's a good bit of photoshop involved. Is there a low priced version of photoshop available? I've only got gimp and haven't used it beyond mostly resizing