> Quote - as you all know I"m not a newbie. I've been hesitating to ask this question, hoping I could figure it out myself. I know it's something simple. bear in mind I normally don't render anything in poser. I just set the scene up and render in carrara or vue. Well I was trying to do a simple poser render using a white background. In the preview render there are nice little shadows where the ground would be, but when I render all the shadows on the ground are gone. I quite like those shadows and would like it to render like in the preview for the particular project I have in mind. Love esther PS feel free to poke tongue out at me.

After following this discussion for a while I think I see what the confusion is.
What people seem to be confusing is a guide in the preview mode called Ground Shadows
that you can check on or off from the Display pull down and actual shadows cast on
the ground plane when you do a render.
The only way you are going to duplicate the Ground Shadow image  is to either export an
unrendered image and then try to fit that shadow section into your scene in postwork or to
put a light directly over your figure and adjust the light parameters to duplicate the Ground
Shadows image.  Because Ground Shadows is just a guide, as is the checkerboard
patern of the ground plane and all the other guide lines that you can enable or disable.
The folks that created Poser probably never anticipated that anyone would ever
want guide lines to show up in an image and so the renderer intentionally
doesn't render the guide lines, of which Ground Shadow is one of them.

If all you intend the picture for is an illustration and you aren't too concerned about
quality just take your unrendered scene and go File:Export:Image...
Then in the pop-up window give your file a name and what extension
you want it to be, ie jpeg, bmp, tiff.   The Ground Shadow will show up
in an unrendered image.

PS, you can get slightly better quality out of an exported unrendered image by
going to Render:Anti-Alias Document first.  Just don't move anything or
you will have to anti-alias it again.