Posting this because I realized something that might help some others. If you use L.I.E. for tattoos, makeup, etc. and have noticed your load times get longer and longer it's because of all the extra texture layers. For example, I had like 7 extra layers on the torso alone. So I found the temp file that is created for the skin and copied that along with the skin without any of the tats. Imported that into photoshop along with the transparency version and adjusted things the way I wanted with all the tats, saved both as PNG and then in Daz in the surfaces tab I selected my newly created images as the diffuse and transparency map. And then I had all my tats loaded in without any L.I.E. layers. Load time is way faster. Good if you have things that stick throughout like tattoos or makeup, etc.
Also, would marry 10/10.