Yet another, another, another opinion... [grin] I usually have ik on for the initial "bulk" leg posing, then turn it off. I may later turn it on to do adjustments to posing if I want some part to 'stay put'. Otherwise it's off. Camera I switch off on, but usually shortly into setting up the image, a certain camera becomes my "main" camera. I tend to not move it and usually 'remember' its position with the camera dots. This is usually the camera through which I'm (at least initially) thinking I'll render the final image. I usually back the aux camera way off so I can get the birds-eye view of the scene. The dolly camera is great to use when doing an image inside something like a house or tunnel or cave. Or at least I think it's called the dolly camera... (i'm at work, no poser in front of me)... the one that sits in place and just pivots back-n-forth without moving... yeah, that one. Interestingly, the face and hand camera's seem to be my main posing cameras I use most. Camera use for me seems to be whichever one seems right for the moment and the image. If I need to revolve around something a lot, I'll use the face and hand cameras. The isometric cameras are great for lining things up. Especially if you have some of the "construction" type prop sets for making tunnels, buildings, mazes, walls, whatever, where they have to line up just right to look right. I have a large monitor, so my image size in poser is most always set to what I want the size of the final rendered image to be. Usually somewhere between 640x480 to 750x[mumble-mumble]. I rarely render in a separate window. I usually add textures as I'm going along. Mostly so I don't have to go back and try to remember what I was thinking of doing texture-wise later on. However, my view is usually set to flat-shaded or hidden-line while posing. I'll click on the full-textured display ball just to see how things are shaping up, then go back to flat-shaded for more posing. Lights I usually have in mind what I want to do with them as I go along. I'll use the default lights for set up and posing until I'm "done posing". Then I delete all but the main infinite light and start putting in the spot lights I want. During this (supposedly) "done posing" stage I'll turn up the main infinite light if I decide to do any tweeking to the posing (which is a common occurance and why I put "done posing" in quotes :P ). Depending on the final image I want, I'll either turn off the last infinit light, or change its color and turn it waaay down to provide ambient light to fill in areas I want to be a little visible but not worth a spotlight.