POSER TUTORIAL – TATTOO

Welcome to my Tutorial of my Artwork „Tattoo“. This one is made for Poser but one

for DAZ Studio will be made too, if someone wants it. If you have questions please tell

me.

You need:

Poser (I use Poser Pro 2012), but should go on other versions too.

Victoria 4

A graphic program like Photoshop

All resources I used will be found in the description.

STEP ONE: GETTING STARTED (1:50PM)

Open your Poser and your graphic program. You don’t need your graphic program

now, so switch over to Poser. Use CRTL+Y to open your Render Settings and make

your Rendersettings that work for you the best.

This are mine:

Remember, you should look want works best with your graphic card and your

Computer. I’ve a very good graphic card and a fast computer. As next you should

make your Render Dimensions. Like you can see mine are 2400x3000. You can make

it larger or smaller, like you want.

STEP TWO: LOADING VICTORIA 4 (2:02PM)

Now we load our Victoria 4. If she is finished with loading, search for the Morphs you

want to use and the Textures you want. I have my Character Lin, and look for

Textures that suits her. As next we’ll insert a Background. It will be very useful later for

the Lightning. File – Import – Background.

You will get this message from Poser, just click on yes.

Sometimes your Backgroundimage will not fit your working space, but that isn’t tragic,

because your background won’t be saved if you save your render as .png.

STEP THREE: APPLY TATTOOS

ON THE SKIN (2:20PM)

Now we need our graphic program, and

we need the Skin Texture of your choice,

you can find it, under Runtime/Libaries

and then Textures. As next we need

Tattoos, you can find the one I used in

the description. Load your Skin Texture

and your Tattoos in your graphic program.

Your Tattoo-Layer should be on multiply

and on opacity between 60-80%. You

can use more then one Tattoo, if you

want. I use one on her Back and on her

arms. I save them on my desktop, and let

the name as the original. Now we go in

the Materialroom, and choose SkinTorso.

If you have Tattoo’s for the Arms too you

need SkinArm too.

STEP FOUR: CLOTHING,HAIR AND POSING(2:40PM)

Now we load the Hair and Clothing we want to use. If you want you can use other

Textures for your Hair and Cloths. As next we make a nice Pose for our Victoria 4. I use

the same as my Poser Render, I just adjust the Camera that you can see her from

behind. Adjust your Camera too if you want.

STEP FIVE : LIGHTNING (3:00PM)

Now we come to the most difficult part, for me. I’m not really good at Lightning.

I use 4 Lights. All Spotlights. The Light that comes from the front is the only that makes

shadows. I used a Preset of Lights, just changed the Colors. Like I already said, I suck

at Lightning. I make now a Draft Render, just to look if there any mistakes in my

Render. If all is good you can begin Render.

Time Begin Render: 3:22pm

Time Finished Render: 05:06pm

STEP SIX: POSTWORKING IN PHOTOSHOP (5:07PM)

Open your Render in Photoshop, and your Background too. Copy your Background

and paste it in your Render, drag the Background Layer under your Render, if your

background is to small scale it with CTRL+T.

Now duplicate your Render, set it on Soft Light. Now go to Filter -> Blur -> gaussian

Blur and set it between 10-15%. The Opacity can be changed if your Image is too

dark. I put it on 80%.

Next make a new Layer, fill it with a Color you choose from your Background. Set

your Layer on Color. Set the Opacity between 15%-20%. Click right on your Layer

and choose Blending Options.

Now make a new Layer and go to Image -> Apply Image. Now go to Filter -> Blur -

> Smart Blur

Now we go to Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask

If you want you can once again duplicate your Image, set the duplicate on soft

Light, opacity 50% and use Filter ->Blur -> Gaussian Blur, like before.

Now we are finished.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial. And I hope you can

understand my English. If you have questions, just ask me, write a comment or a Note.