THANKS!! I am so new to this, didn't know you had to run the update script every time you got a new set of INJ morphs. It worked. :-))

Well, I decided to get CL for Windows (paid), and when I printed out a few pages, the resolution was actually good. I don't know if there was some strange issue with the trial version, or something else I was doing. I basically started my strip from scratch, with the collection of renders from before. So far so good. I don't expect any miracles with the resolution of my renders, but at least for future ones I know what to do. Thanks for all your help! 

Do you recommend any good web spots for posting comics?

I think you have a different program. Maqic is an upgraded version of the basic that I have....well, I decided to purchase the basic and will tinker with the images to see if there is still a resolution issue. 

:-)

You get Prefs when you click the logo? It might be a trial version issue...or do you have to go to File, Edit, etc?

I have the PC version, so when I click on the logo and/or Comic Life words I just get options for minimizing or maximizing the window. Perhaps the pay version has this option--this is only the trial version. 

I have had difficulty finding "preferences", there is "options", but didn't seem to be what you were referring to. I did find a filter option under Image Attributes on the bar on the right, for making your image "drawn", "pastel", "painted", b/w", etc. Mine was switched to "none". Is this the filter option you were referring to? I don't think this option really controls pixilation. Must be somewhere else. I'll keep looking. :-)

Well, I am getting very suspicious. I got fed up experimenting with my Poser renders, and decided to see what would happen when I used some other images that I have that I know are very high res, like 3000 x 2000 pixels at 300 dpi--you can't beat that. Guess what, even they turn out fuzzy in Comic Life! So, there is something else going on...something having to do with how images are visualized in the program. If any of you know or have had any experience with this, I would love to solve this riddle!

THANKS all you have been very kind!

Yes, I hope you will be patient with me on all this. I thank you in any case for bearing with me. I tried a number of experiments. Basically, most of my renders are 849 x 637 pixels at 96dpi, which makes an image of 8.8 x 6.6 inches, or 22 x 16 cms. When I print such an image on paper, the resolution is very good for a half page, horizontally-oriented image. Now, when I go to CL, I decided to do a page in 4 square format. I thought the smaller box size would help with resolution, as Klebnor recommends. It is strange, because when I initially place the image, the resolution is very good, but then about 3 seconds later, the image becomes very pixilated. I tried playing around with the zoom feature, and the same thing happens over and over. At first the image has the sharpness of the original, and then it gets fuzzy.

I am having a hard time understanding that if you are leaving an image in its original size, such as 8x 6 inches, or even reducing it by a third or so, that you need a higher resolution original image. I would think you would need to increase the resolution of the renders if you intended to blow the images up, not reduce them. If the final image in the comic strip is only 3 x 4 inches (without blowing up or reducing the poser render image, just clipping), an original render of 8 x 6 inches would seem to work perfectly well, I would think, but I am new to this and it seems I am not seeing the light. Thanks for all your help and patience!

For the template I used, it was in their "custom" section, and it was in standard US 8x10 format, so who knows whether there is some other issue at play, such as web publication. I actually would consider doing this before printing. I actually do like CBC but the lack of support concerns me. Since I have already done I don't know how many chapters of my strip in the lower resolution (like 500 renders), would you have any recommendations on how to make do with what I have to get something halfway decent-looking in CL? When I was disappointed in the image degradation in CL I switched to CBC, only to find myself with a ton of low res renders, a good story line, and unsure of what direction to head in. Thanks all you experienced people out there, and The Fixer in particular for his kind advice. :-)

I admit I had rendering at the standard default Poser 7 resolution, which was around 500 x 600 @ 72 dpi, which seems very low! I'll tinker with it and see if I get better results in CL. If any of you have any insights about the difference with Comic Book Maker, and why the results are so different, I'm all ears. Thanks again!

Well, I will try it. I was just going to back to my Comic Book Maker, and seeing that on a standard US 8x10, the uploaded renders are as sharp as crystal. I am puzzled. When I printed a page they retained their sharpness. Do any of you have experience with this program?

Anyway, you  would recommend I go to render dimensions and set the width and height to 1500 x 1200? And resolution at 150? Thanks. I am very new to this.