I use Poser 4 for all of my artwork and am quite comfortable with it.  Claus, 
you need to apply a texture to your figure in order to make it look right.  You 
will not get good results if you use the default "colors" on your figures.  Use 
your explorer to enter the textures folder and see if you have any textures 
there for the poser 3 figure that you are using.  Then enter the "render" pull 
down and go into "materials".  There, change the entire figure to the color 
"white".  This will allow your figure's texture to show up true.  Then apply the 
texture to the entire figure and press save.

After that, render the figure.  I think you'll find that things look a lot better.  
There are dozens upon dozens of more things you can do to improve the 
figure.  Poser is a complicated tool and certainly NOT push button artwork, but 
if you have some artistic training in composition, color and lighting, you can do 
some fun things with it.

Feel free to have a look at my gallery and commissions pages for some 
examples of what I do.  

Take care and have fun. :)

> I have just installed Poser 3 and played with it around a bit. Easy to
> use, but I'm having a problem with my second model (see at
> http://www.grafik-tips.org/weblog/). After the rendering, there is a
> kind of "spill" (??? not sure if this is the proper expression) on the
> neck (which wasn't there before). The color for the skin is the same
> everywhere, and the shadow is set to grey. Does anyone have an idea
> what I can do to get the appropriate, natural color? The problem
> happens with *all* of the rendering options I have tried so far.

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