re. what ashley sez... I guess I am not clear in my meaning, it is not that the renderer should conform their figure to a background (though why not really since in a way Poser is a form of digital interactive "paint by number" for many users who just want to make pretty pictures this way) but that the photographer must keep in mind the nature of Poser lights and cameras and the needs of Poser figures in composing the original photograph. Some people sell background photographs that simply do not permit Poser figures to integrate with them. Myself I use photo backgrounds so far only for a sureal effect, collage almost... to get an artificial look like when some pervert glues the head cut from the photo of an office picnic on a Sears catalog laungerie figure and pasts that on a postcard of Tahiti :) My mother is always sending me photos of family events where she has cut out some one who wasn't in attendance from an other photo and pasted them in the scenes and then color copied it so the edit is "seamless" :) I have done images with Poser figures and photo backgrounds for either Photoshop "natural media" watercolor effects or actual real world drawings. Above I was testing dphoadly's Posette with unimesh mapping and put a background in behind just for fun rather than having the gray void. I find I can fake integration to some extent by having background and figure on seperate layers and then diing some post-work dodge and burn on each seperately.