Quote - There is nothing wrong about placing the shadow on a separate layer.  Strictly speaking, once you are ready to resave it into a different format, merge all the layers together into a final image.

Thank you , but when I tried that I got the same result for some crazy reason , that is what has been so frustrating. I think the only way to is to add the shadow on a seperate layer.
Thank you for your help I very much appreciate any help I can get using poser and making my images better.

Becky