Geep has a tutorial about backgrounds in Poser. I've seen it a couple of months ago. You can delete a background by using Display->Clear Background Picture. The main problem with background picures is shadows. They don't receive shadows. It's easy to recognize a Poser image using a background: if the feet are cropped off and the character does not cast a shadow, it's a "render over background picture" Poser 6 has a Shadow Catcher option which is very useful to get shadows onto backgrounds. Blown up and distorted, yes, I have those problems too when using a background image. So I don't use background images anymore. Instead of a background image, I load a one-sided square, use the background image as a texture map on the square, and then I move and resize the square until it looks good. And for sky backgrounds, I almost always use a procedural shader on the background material. Ajax has some great background shaders in freestuff that I use quite often. Hope this helps, Steven.

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