Attached Link: http://www.jalberts.net/francemi/

You have some OUTSTANDING pics there francemi!!! Can't wait to get home I can get some. Thank you for your generousity!!!

Cool. Ummm, how do we use these? : ) (Newbie!!)

You're welcome! You can use this kind of images as backgrounds for a Poser scenes. For example, you can place a fairy (or fairies) on the rocks in the sea bed. That is just an example, there are many kind of scenes you can place on such backgrounds. You'll find many pictures of the sky that you can use for background for angels or airplanes, or anything you like. You can also use these pictures as backgrounds for scenes you create with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro... and so on. Or you can use them as a background for your desktop. Just use your imagination. That's the best tool you can have. France

Thanks. What I meant was, do I load them in Poser through the Materials dialogue box, or are they best used in "post poser production" by bringing them in after done with character creation in poser through photoediting software. See what I mean?

Yes I see. You don't bring them in the material room. You can either import background picture from the posing room or use them in post-work. I prefer post-work myself. France

drhess if you have poser 5 in the materials room you select the background and make a new image node and attach it to the background.

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These pictures are great! Thank you.

Wonderful pix. It's especially nice to have photos taken with a "Poser eye". When I surf through a general photo site like Pbase.com, most of the pix I like are taken from angles that just won't work.

ockham... I know what you mean. That's why before we left for our vacations, we bought a 256MB card for our digital camera so I could take lots of pictures that will be useful as background images. I've put a few series there that are less useable for this but most of them are. France

LOVE them! Had to use one of them right away as a background for my new image at the Member's Gallery ;-)

Poser 5 has a default node-set for the Background, which includes BGPicture. Earlier versions seem to do it differently, thoiugh one of the menues. An alternative is to use the single-sided square primitive, and use the picture as a texture on that. For something like a [picture of a building. you could shift this square so that the Ground object lined up with the transition between wall and ground in the picture. If you want to get really fancy with such a square, you could use transmaps to pick out a window, or a gap between trees: this is an old method used for films calle a matte shot, where the scenery was painted on a glass plate, and the set shot through the clear area. There's a lot you can do with background pictures.

spothmann, could you give a link so we can see the image? I didn't find it in your gallery. France

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed2.ez?galleryid=7552

WOW! It is exactly the kind of portrait to go with that background. Bravo! It's funny to see that woman from old times in a place I left only last week ;o)) France

WOW France those are gorgeous pics! It's wonderful of you to share them! Looks like you vacationed in a wonderful place! :)

LOL! Come visit me in my hometown - my neighbors are by now annoyed to see 'that woman from old times' in our village every day (and, yes, I don't mind shopping groceries dressed like this - or even worse - when I'm wearing a victorian bustle gown, people ask if they 'can use the table on my backside for camping' - sigh!).

loll! And where is that hometown exactly? I'm just trying to picture you, dressed like this, checking the prices on the different canned food in the stores!!! Or better yet, drinking a soft drink with a straw while you shop! That's anachronism for you. ;o) beachnut: you're quite welcome. I hope you do something with them and show us. And yes, it is a wonderful place! France

Sorry, when I'm dressed in that gown, I cannot drink whatever at the same time - I have to be too careful that my feet won't get stuck in the ten yards hem of the skirt, otherwise I would trip every few steps. The best thing I can do in it is to sit down and smile for pictures, or to stand in one place and look important ;-)
The hometown is, almost exactly by the breadth of a hair if seen on an average world globe, in Hamburg, North Germany.

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Gorgeous stuff, thank you! RC

wowzers!! the sky pics are so amazing!! thanks so much! Nancy

I'm glad you all like them. Please show us the scenes you make with them. France

Glad to see you are back and well France, thanks for the pics. -Vlad

Will you allow use in commercial renders?

No. Just personal stuff. If someone wants to use them in commercial renders, they can communicate with me in private and we can discuss terms. France