Dani

Poser is a 3D program now sold through e frontier. I still use version 4 (Metacreations owned it then) even though I have versions 5 and 6. They just came out with Poser 7. They don't sell Poser 4 anymore, instead they sell Poser Artist. I'm pretty sure it's basically the same program. The later versions are too advanced for what I use it for...to create clipart. I'm not a 3D purist so I don't need all the fancy lighting nor do I use it for its animation capabilities so Poser 4 suits me just fine. I enhance all of my renders in Photoshop, painting hair, clothes, adding this and that and using PS's tools to get a finished image. To use Poser you buy meshes with which you pose, light, dress and then render your image. You can then further enhance in a graphics program...I do a lot of enhancing. *smile* The dollie I used for this card is the ball jointed doll created by Maya (http://www.3digitalcrafts.net/studiomaya/1store/thumb/bjd3.jpg). Wikipedia has a bit about it here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser It can be an expensive hobby but most of my online friends more than make up for the cost by creating clipart and selling it or by supporting it with actual meshes and textures created for the program. The online Poser community is quite large and there are actually a lot of us old folks out here using it. *smile*

Thank you! I'm finding card creating to be very enjoyable. I love creating papers and digging through my vast resources to find the perfect embellishments. This is really fun. *smile* I've been using Photoshop (and Paint Shop Pro) since version 4 (10, 11, 12 years ago?), so I've been through every online graphic phase that you can imagine...from doing every PSP tutorial that came out to creating my own brushes, fonts, and other digital elements. I started about 7 years ago with Poser 4 (and still use that version even though I have versions 5 & 6) so I could create my own clipart. The little star cluster brush (on her hair ribbon and the bottom corner) I made several years ago and if anyone wants it, please just give a holler. It was created for Photoshop 7.

Thank you so much! The hearts are a Photoshop shape that I downloaded from the Adobe Studio Exchange many years ago...looks like they were made from some Dover clipart.