Mine have been Verdie and ThralLord over the long haul... They have always been supportive when I get discouraged... And lately, there has been Alihahd whose art gets better and better.. And all of the artists who have worked so hard to conquer Poser's inherent anatomical dificiencies... I have no incentives to compete with them or at this time commit to the effort to become accomplished in an art form of which I know nothing and would have SO much to learn, but they have all required that I pay more attention to my own style and strive to improve it... In the company of so much accomplished talent, I can now NEVER post an older work without completely reworking it

Corruption comes from inadequate memory (and, for a while, a bad RAM chip) and pushing it to the limit... then when something "squirrely" happens, having to go through checking and repairing the catalog files, etc. It all seems to leave its share of scars... Nothing that throwing a few handfuls of money under the hood wouldn't fix... The worst that has happened with PICT format is doctoring a line strip or two... A JPG file sometimes fails to be recoverable at all with whatever program I attempt to resussitate it with... I live with it; I use jaz and external SCISI drives both for backup...

Bonestructure, you are quite correct... My comment is wrong and was written in haste... Detail is certainly retained in jpg... What I have experienced however is the loss of the file itself due to some slight corruption... It doesn't happen to me in PICT format which I can always recover with a bit or two corrupted

But there are three ways to reinforce your memory... 1. By association 2. By repetition 3. ...??? Darn! I forget! Pictures for uploading are best in 72 or 75 dpi for viewing or file size... But I like to do finish work in 150 dpi and a maximum of "Thousands of Colors-RPG" (not enough computer memory to do more)... At higher resolution, edge "Jaggies" disappear, detail is retained in "Scale", and "Sharpen" is far more effective... And then, I reconvert back to 72-75 dpi for "Upload" Walt

If it is downloaded, it generally comes in jpg which is nice for storage, but large files are unstable in an "as is" form... Because of the heavy "parsing of data", the least little screwup renders the file unrecoverable... I find increased stability through the use of Graphic Converter (it accesses these "raw" files far more easily and trouble free, especially large jpg files), and doing a "Save" to give the file a picture icon renders the file far more stable... If the file is to be manipulated, it MUST be from then on stored in a larger file format to retain detail... TIFF is Ok, but I prefer PIC (Macintosh) so that I can scan the library with one of a number of programs that don't recognise TIFF PowerPC