Thank you for responding. This is a more detailed look at what I'm trying to do. I area rendered a portion of the scene. Then cropped that section in GIMP. The 3rd image shows the uncropped and cropped images on a hi res square. Then I decided to just try to render THAT, and the other image popped up!! No idea what happened, but oh well. Anyhow, your description sounds simple enough, that even I should be able to do it, but for some reason, I'm missing something and I don't know what. I'm just doing the area renders in the default (680x420 at 72 dpi) for right now, trying to get a handle on this before moving to higher resolutions. I want to put some of these "pictures" in frames on the walls in my poser house/gallery, etc., and I'm able to do it with some of them for whatever reason. I can get the pixel dimensions easy enough from the GIMP photos, but where do I find the pixel measurements in Poser 11 Pro, or does it have them? For a 348 x 544 pixel image (4.83 x 7.56 inches print size) I resized the primitive, but still ended up with a garbled image, at least until I played around with some things and just re-rendered the scene, then it popped up (washed out and hazy, but it was there. But I cant seem to get it to show on "normal" mode, prior to rendering a scene. It's probably likely that I'm WAYYYY overthinking this and got myself all sorts of confused.