I use backgrounds a lot so I can build up an image a few models at a time rather than have all those models in one document. I do them with bitmaps rather than jpegs, which may be why mine come out with no pixelation. If I make a render and then load it as a background for the next render there is no loss of quality as long as I keep the doc window the same size all the way through.

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