Ok little bit of a trick to get people to read this. I have P5. How do I get jpg images on squares, to be as bright and sharp as if I used them as background. I dont want a brick wall or shiny marble on my square i want my own jpg damn it! Thank you very much.

1. Select the square, then go to the Material Room (CTRL-U).

2. Set Diffuse_Value and Specular_Value to 0. This turns them off.

3. Attach a 2D image map node to the Ambient_Color channel, as follows:

Left-click on the little plug icon next to Ambient_Color to get the popup menu.
New Node --> 2D Textures --> image_map

1. Load your jpg into the Image_Map node.

2. Set Ambient_Value to 1 for maximum brightness.

Now try rendering it and see how it looks.

Thank you little dragon!!! It works swell!!! Yay!!!

That little dragon's pretty smart.

Note when you do this, though, that it is like using a process screen in cinema. The square is actually "lit up" with the image and will not take shadows. If you want them you have to add them.