Well, I'm baffled because there is no such thing as 'unsharpness' in poser (unfortunately). Changing lights or cameras will do nothing. Could it be something to do with Depth Cueing? You can switch that on/off in the Display menu or by using the 4th button on the right of the doc window. But it's more of a foggy effect than soft focus. The only other thing I can think of is to go to preferences and set poser to open with the factory settings and see if it's any different. mac