I sometimes like to use background images, but often they render in a rather "blocky" way. As an illustration I've attached a thumbnail of a pic of mine that's currently in the gallery. Compared to the figure this looks iffy to say the least. Can anyone give me any tips to avoid this? Thx in advance.

That makes me wonder whether you're exceeding the resolution of the background picture. My suggestion is that you do your poser work separately and save in TIF format. Then in Photoshop, create layer from background and do an inverse selection to delete it. Then you can try scaling your background image to your poser work.

thx, will try that - sorry abt multiple posting - have co ordination probs and mouse went mad for a minute!!!!! ;)

It looks like the thing where you load a background and then change the render size to something bigger, poser still makes the background picture the size of the smaller one and so it doesn`t work.

For some reason, imported background images are resampled in Poser to match the current scale of your document display window - not your render size. Instead, apply the image to a square prop and place it in your background. If you want it to track with a camera, just parent it.

thanx will try to do that - if I can figure it out, ;). Still finding my way round Poser and there's so much to learn

couple of more tips may be appropriate then, - Be sure to set the Bacground Prop to not Cast Shadows in its properties box (Ctl-I) to keep it from blocking your lights. - If you are using a distant background image, and don't want your scene's lights to affect that image, then set the background prop's Object & Highlight Colors to 0% Black and the Ambient Color to 100% White. That'll keep your background image at full brightness consistantly (without overexposing if it gets hit by a light).

Now THAT is a neat tip to avoid overexposure. Learn something every day. :)

thx for the advice everyone - I'll certainly try. I've already done a pic with a Bryce background - postworked in PSP9 (don't have photoshop)