I'm brand new to Poser 7 - been using Poser 4 Artist for a couple of years.  I'm hoping that this is a stupid question that there's a really simple answer for....

With Poser 4, I had no problem doing sketch designer renders with an imported background image.  Everything was rendered -- the background image and the objects within the scene.  With Poser 7, the sketch designer renders aren't acknowledging my background image -- I get a render of an empty room (empty ground) with only my objects rendered.

I've searched through render settings best as I can and looked in the Reference Manual, but I'm not finding anything...my technical know-how isn't very good, so maybe it's there, but I'm just not understanding?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

AFAIK there is a problem with the sketch designer for Poser 7 sr1.  There are a couple of threads around. 

Although I can load and change sketch styles in the designer, I cant get it to render any sketch style apart from the default from the document window or to save sketch settings properly.

Just thought you'd like to know it's not just you.

Mick

Does this problem also occur for you with the Poser4-style render in Poser 7?

I upgraded from Poser4 to Poser 7 three days ago and the firefly render is the only way I can get an imported background picture to render in the scene. Sadly, firefly renders are too slow and I'm young and impatient! :D

I 've played with every button I could find, read the manual from cover to cover (extremely vague in places!!) and still can't get background pics to render in anything other than firefly.

Come back, Poser 4. All is forgiven!!! :D

 - Hairy

Try applying your background image to the one sided aquare and then resize the square to fill your background. Make sure the square has 'cast shadows' unchecked in the properties panel to prevent unwanted shadow.