For Q1 - There are spectacular renders done in each version of Poser. The realism is from using professional quality textures (some are free, many are commercial if you're not good at texturing), good lighting (some light sets are available for free and some for purchase if you need lighting help) and lots of practice. There are a bunch of tutorials out there to help you get more realistic results as well. (I have some tutorials on my site, including making more realistic faces and poses.) You can fake backgrounds in Poser using a variety of tricks. (DAZ Cyclorama, 3dModelz' 3DWorldz, and Runtime DNA Infinity Cove are a few examples.) P5 can somewhat create water, but most people use some postwork in Photoshop or PSP to make it look more realistic - water beads on skin, etc. For Q2 - you probably need to render the picture in a larger size. You can Render to New Window and specify a larger pixel size. (I'm not at a computer with Poser on it, so I can't give the exact path, but if you look a little, you should be able to find it.) Once the picture renders, you click on the new screen to close it and Poser will offer to save the picture. (I mention this because the first time I rendered to a new window I couldn't figure out how to save the picture and freaked out.) Cheers!