Jackson, It's a slightly involved process. You do it by modifying the posershell.xml in the Runtime/ui folder. I'll try to summarize it for you. 1. BACK UP posershell.xml by making a copy and storing it somewhere safe!!!!!!! 2. To get rid of the poser gradient effect, open posershell.xml in a text editor. Near the beginning, you'll find a line WidgetName="eGradientBackground" Just after that line, you'll see widgetProcID It has a value of '5'. Change the value to '7'. When you re-open poser, the gradient will be gone and the background will be a light beige color (it's natural state). Changing the bg color is a little bit more complicated, but not that difficult. 1. Find the color you want to use. 2. Make a note of it's RGB values and open your calculator. 3. Multiply the Red value by 65536 and Green by 256. 4. Add the Red, Green and Blue values together. You'll end up with a long number. Below is the calculation and result for the color I'm currently using. ---------------------------- R 128 G 119 B 112 R 128 x 65536 = 8388608 G 119 x 256 = 30464 B 112 total = 8419184 ------------------------------ 5. Open posershell.xml and search for color="13879224" Replace the numberical value with your own final number. When you open poser, your bg will be the new color. It's a bit of a pain doing the calculations. I suggest you note them in notepad like I did (that's how I was able to paste my values above), because you may try several colors before finding the one you like. If you don't like the new ui, simply restore the back-up copy of posershell.xml. Written out, it looks complicated, but it's actually very easy to do. I also want to emphasise that I didn't figure any of this out. It was all posted by the P5 pioneers who went before me. mac