i am playing about with poser 4 but im new to this, its a 2 part question. the fantastic pics im seeing on this site with great faces and bodies is that done on with poser 4 or do you need 5 and how do you get great backgrounds ie people coming out of water etc. and 2 when i tried to put a basic pic into adobe to print off it will only go up to a certain size and then pixelates 10x8 is out of the question so if anyone can help cheers delboyo

Well the first one I can help you with, alot of the pictures you see in the gallery were done with Poser 4, it will say which one it is, Poser 5 has some nice ones too. As far as the people coming out of the water you can do that with Poser 5 but I am assuming they used another software like Vue d'Esprit or Bryce and rendered there, of course you should read the bottom of the picture it usually says. I am not to sure about your second question though. Poser 4 does a very nice rendering pictures. Sharen

"when i tried to put a basic pic into adobe to print off it will only go up to a certain size and then pixelates 10x8 is out of the question" Click RENDER>then RENDER OPTIONS>click NEW WINDOW (allows larger renders), change resolution to 300 or better (if your mach can handle it). The size and resolution will be limited by your memory. 72 pixels per inch is usually for the web. 300 pixels per inch is for print. the higher the resolution, the larger you can make the image before pixelation.

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!

A rule of thumb if you start with a 3" x 3" pic and you want to enlarge it to 9" x9" 300 dpi, the original you should have 3" x 3" @ 900 dpi. you can use lower dpi's on the original pic , but the pic will pixelate at a lower size (as you noticed).

What I am saying is; make the poser image as large(higher resolution) as you can , then render, save/export as PSD, and open in Photoshop. You can now enlarge within the limitations of the resolution you saved at.

Note: When you select Render Option>New Window, the length X width windows will be activated, you can change the pic size to the largest your mach can handle you only need to cange one number, they are links, the other number will change by itself.

The larger the image, and higher the resolution, the more you can enlarge in Photoshop.

You can make water in Photoshop or Paintshop... Go to flamingpear.com and download their flood filter ;)

LadyJaiven That's a terrific plug-in.

Attached Link: http://www.flamingpear.com

Superbladepro is neat, I have two others, they offer some nice options.

Well delboyo, I hope we helped. ;o)

Some of the images you're looking at may have been made with Poser AND another program like Bryce or Vue, which are great for creating 3D landscapes.

Attached Link: http://www.gimp.org/

a big thanks to you all! delboyo