Quote - Wait, you said you can see snippets of the image?

Could you show a screen cap?

Hi:
Thank you both for the reply.
Yes, "show background" was checked but what is a screen cap?
By the way, the snippets that I referred to were or are as follows:
When a background photo is imported into a scene containing a single character and "show background" is checked, a vertical grid appears when the cursor hovers near the character.  The grid, however, is reversed so that the entire display, except for the character, is covered by gray squares where "snippets" of the background photo can be seen in the thin grid lines that separate the gray squares.  In essence, it appears as if the photo is being viewed from behind Poser's background which by default is assigned as gray.   I hope that my explanation is clear.

Thank you in advance once again.