Morning. I posted a question a while back about creating thumbnails of actual renders for my libraries. Someone suggested the paste onto background method. Well I dont know if I am just being ditsy or what but I cannot get that to work. I am using Pro Pack and this is what I am doing. I render the image I want, then after its done, I click on edit>copy then display> paste onto background. All I get is a copy of the preview pasted in the window. I have also tried by just clicking paste onto background and still nothing... Can someone maybe walk me through what I may be doing wrong? Thanks in advance :) Annette

after you render, click on edit/COPY PICTURE...then click on Display/paste onto background when you click on edit/copy, it copies the window not the render....

Ok I tried that but it still only copied the preview. After I click edit copy picture do I close the render? Grrrr I am getting so frustruated. Hmmm let me try again

are you rendering the image to the preview window or to a new one? I'd suggest rendering it to the preview window, I think that'd make dizzie's suggestion work. Evo

And you could also just save your render as a file. Then go and import it as your background.

Ok I was rendering to a new window, maybe thats it. and your other suggestion to import as background is also a good one. :) Thanks. I'll let ya know how it turns out

oh yeah, you can't render to a new window cause it copies the preview window...

I had this problem last week when preparing my Full & Feathered textures for the MP. My solution: render out all of my previews and save as tifs. Open a new poser file, add a flat square. Apply the preview.tif to the square. Save as a prop. Go into the library folders in Explorer and steal the RSR from the preview square prop and put it in the folder with your model. Now match up the names, so the object and its RSR have the same name. There ...all done. Annoying but it works.

Save the pic and use alt-f-i-b (kb shortcut for import background). Much faster than pissing around with menus. Then save it in cameras as a thumbnail, delete the cm2 part of the file and rename the rsr part to match your MAT file. mac

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems a long way to go when there's a very simple solution. Render to a separate window. Use 90 by 90 if you want to stay with the Poser standard. I use 120 by 120 and have had no problems and I can see more of the detail. Save to the same folder as your model. Save the picute as a .png with the same prefix (before the ".") as your model. The next time you open that directory in the libraries area, you'll see it. Issues: You will probably be overwriting the thumbnail made by Poser when you saved the model. If you save the model and then immediately make the thumbnail, the "Save As" directory will be the one you want. I wrote a little Python script that sets the render options, including the window size. It doesn't save a lot of keystrokes, but I'm a programmer. I had to write it.

I forgot one small point, sorry. I have started to load the picture into a graphics package, like JASC. There I add text over the picture. I add "PZ" if the model has poses, "LT" if it came with lighting presets, etc. In this way, I know to go looking for props, extra makeup, or anything else. Just a thought.

Ok well thanks for all the great advice :) I'm so confused now. LOL No really..... Thanks to everyone for giving me tips on this. I have been gone all day and I will venture into Poser to try these ideas out tonight. I did try earlier again with the rendering to the same window and it still did not work. Maybe I am just "thick" or something. :) I will try it again tonight and post to let ya'll know if it works. Thanks again, Annette

Hi, I have a mac and poser 4. I just tried that method of making png file with same name but png extension using photoshop, but I still have the shrugging man. Yes I saved it to the correct pose folder. esther

I believe PNG's are used by pro pack and regular poser 4 uses RSR files. There is a PNG to RSR converter out there somewhere, I'm sure someone will come along and provide the link for ya. Keep hope alive! It seems like a huge pain at first, but once you get used to it, its a flash. Evo

I have other .png files in the folder which show up just fine - you know, the ones that came with vicki3. Sigh! Esther (mac girl)

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Hi, I don't think that actually works for my mac. I haven't got that p3doexplorer thing. I tried putting the inverted alpha channel as the bottom layer in photoshop and saving as .png, but I still have the shruggy guy. Love Esther