I would like to do 11 by 14 inch prints. However I like to use actual photo backgrounds of waterfalls etc. with poser people in front. It appears that Poser will only render a background as large as your computer screen. Anything larger will become extremely pixelated. How can I make an 11 X 14 without making jagged edges on the Photo background. I don't want to do a poser scene on a bluescreen and paste it in later in Photoshop, too much work. Should I buy a bigger (expensive) monitor? Lance

You can render out of poser at up to 4k by 4k pixels. I've never done larger myself, lol, I just haul it into photoshop after that and resample the image upwards from there. And think about what you're saying above, btw (not being mean, it just strikes me as odd): setting up two layers in photoshop is harder than earning the money to buy a monitor that, in this case, would need to be about the size of a 27 inch TV? Sorry. I'm really not trying to sound bad, but that's just wierd to me, lol

From your description it sounds like your background image is not as big as your render. How big (in pixels) is your background and how big (in pixels) is the image you are trying to render?

Attached Link: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/help_image_sizes.aspx

This link is to a page by CafePress that gives you an idea on what size you should render for whatever print size you want to make. Also includes dpi. I do 11x17 prints so I use these as a guide and they work perfectly. It would also give you an idea what size your background image should be for your renders, too.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=989178

Two different ways of using a background image with two dramatically different results:

If you import your image as an actual Poser Background, it will be resampled to the size of your current composition window within Posers GUI. Since most users end up render at a larger size that their composition window, this usually means the image gets sampled twice. First, down to the size of the working display, then this new data is resampled back up again to the render size. All kinds of errors.

A cleaner method is to apply your background image to a square prop. This avoids the initial downsizing, and the rescaling only occurs one time for your renders.

(see test samples at the link above)

The fractal enlarging software that Wanderer was talking about in Nance's link is Genuine Fractals from Altamira. It does a superb job... especially if your Poser original is rendered in a high res... like 300 dpi. Compositing in Photoshop is much easier and less rendering intensive. The Poser figures can be placed in front of your photograph using the Alpha channels. Saving your Poser image as a photoshop file automatically creates the alpha channel.