Hi I am new to poser, and I have P6. I need to create my renders in two different formats...
8.5" X 14" and 6" X 6". I need to render the dpi at 300+ and when I have tried to do this I am getting jagged edges on the figures and some of the buildings. Could someone please tell me how to resolve this problem? I need to create print ready art, and I have had limited success. But now it is absolutely essential to have the right renders to use. Also I cannot seem to get the Shadows to stop appearing when I render with Firefly. Is there a way to set it so that it doesn't create them? I add my shadows in post prodution, and the Firefly set shadows are often at odds with My desires. I generally use the P4 render because of this problem. If you can help me I am very appreciative. I have only been doing P6 for 3 months but I have been doing Standard forms of art for years. I do sell and plan to take some of my work to print this season. ThanX everyone!
CrimsonMoon

A few tips about the Firefly renderer:

1. NEVER use the presets in the Render Options dialog. Switch to manual, and set your options there.
2. In the manual options you can uncheck "cast shadows"
3. Still in the manual options, you can reduce the shading rate to 0.2-0.5 - this will give you better looking textures with more detail.
4. Set the maximum texture size to an appropriate value. Guestimate how many pixels high the texture will be on the largest object on screen, and round up, preferably to a power of 2.
5. Use smooth polygons if you make closeups
6. Check 'Use displacement maps'. Many P6 materials have displacement mapping that will increase the quality of your render
7. Uncheck texture filtering. It gobbles up memory.

Another way of making the shadows disappear is making the GROUND object invisible in its Object Properties dialog. 

You can get the correct render sizes in the Render Dimensions dialog. Set the dimensions, choose Inches as unit, and set the DPI to 300. Render to a new window must be enabled. A word of warning though: 8.5"x14" will result in a render of 2550x4200 pixels; this is rather large and will take a LONG time to render. And you may run out of memory.

If it renders out OK, just save as .psd and you can do in Photoshop whatever you want. The .psd contains an alpha channel, so it's easy to get rid of the default grey background.

Do not underestimate the raw power of Poser 6. Check UweMattern and richardson in the galleries - that'll give you a good idea of what Poser 6 is capable of without postwork.
Poser 6 is also quite complex - it comes with the power. It'l take some time to unleash its full potential.

This is not a purely technical question. You're better off posting questions like these in the main Poser forum - it's a lot busier than here.

Happy rendering!

Many ThanX sdvl! I am constantly amazed at what I am getting out of this program! I have 2 Gigs of memory soon to be 4 and a fast processor and fairly new and up to date hardware. I do regret not getting a Mac at times but I have a GX280, and it seems to be up to the job. I do appreciate the advise as to where to post, I wasn't sure if this would be real involved and technical, so I chose this forum. I will post other Questions in the poser forum and I will check out the artists mentioned!
regards and happy rendering to you as well! 
CM

haven't the foggiest what a gx280 is, but one should render as tiff
(uncompressed) if using OS X, and make certain to anti-alias the render,
if importing into photoshop e.g. note: the settings differ between
anti-aliasing in P4 and firefly (production vs. draft mode).

Antialiasing in Firefly: use the Pixel Samples value. Pixel Samples at 1 means no antialiasing, pixel samples at 3-5 gives moderate antialiasing, higher values tend to blur the image.

As for the export format, TIFF is fine. Actually every format that does not use lossy compression and keeps alpha channels will do the job. PNG, TIFF, PSD are all good. BMP, JPG are NOT good.

ThanX to you both...Ms Nancy a GX280 is a computer model from Dell. As I said it has a fast processor and 2 gigs of memory. I do not use PS but PSP, altho I do have the saving options of .tiff, .psd and .png as well. svdl, many ThanX again on explaining the obvious that I did not know! LOL! If you hadn't posted my next question would have been....How  do you set the AntiAliasing! LOL!!! I thought that 2-3 was a good setting. One thing I notice is that the settings in Firefly never stay set. That is sometimes a pain. But as it goes along I am getting more familiar with it.
regards,
CrimsonMoon

Ah, but you can save your manual settings in Firefly! There's a button in the Render Options dialog that will save your settings, and another one to retrieve a saved preset.

I haven't tested yet, but it's very likely that the render settings are saved with the preferred state. You can try the following:

• set up the scene the way you want Poser to start up;
• set up the render settings you want Poser to use by default;
• set all other settings the way you want them as defaults;
• and choose Edit->Preferences->General tab->Set preferred state

Should work.