Quote - if you want to use the alpha channel for compositing, you must save the image as either .tif or .png format. bmp or .jpeg do not have an alpha channel.

Yes, that I knew.. And as I suspected it will prove to be a postworking nightmare. Do you all render with antialiasing when you render that way? I can postwork alot of detail's that are screwed up in my images. The latter test image had some really nasty issue's that I usually try to avoid. Didn't do too awfully bad. But the hair alway's get's me.. Especially with a preset background color and flyaway in the hair. You can imagine what that would do when rendering with antialiasing on. Simple fact is long term, I want to become the best artist I can be. Antialiasing creates the best looking image's but not if I have to utilize transparencies to place over a background. I personally can't think of any easy way's to fix the issue. Perhap's it just show's the level of my postworking skills. They have a long way's to go to get to the level of some of the artist on this site. Come to think of it, I don't even know if Studio allows you to turn antialiasing off. My old Poser 4 did but compared to the new studio it wasn't the greatest to use and I couldn't use any of the new characters. Well, any further advice would be appreciated. I can attach an image of the postworking nightmare I rendered as a test, lol. It didn't turn out nearly as good as I'd hoped.

Mark.