Hello

I am trying to make a poster in poser and its simply a pair of skates sitting in a pool of blood.  So I got some blood psds and imported one into photoshop and saved it as a jpg.  So I imported it into poser and have two problems.

It stands up and I cannot rotate it to be on the floor.

The other problem is that it imports with a white background..do I change the background in poser?

Thank you.

You can load a Poser 1 sided square, load your texture onto it, and you prolly either need to save your texture as  PNG to preserve the transparency, or make a transparency map.

 How did you import that jpg into Poser??!?!?! As a background? Then it's no wonder you can't move it.

If you'd rather have a real prop than a jpg, i have a morphing puddle in my free stuff btw. IIRC it comes with a blood texture (but it's several years old so I honestly can't remember it anymore L)

If you import the image as a 'Background Picture', then that's exactly what you get, a background picture that is not moveable. If you want to be able to move it, you should load it into a Poser 'One Sided Square' primitive as an image map.  If you want part of the image to to be transparent, then you can use a transparency map plugged into the Transparency node. A transparency map  is an image where the parts you want to be transparent are absolute black, and the parts you want to be opaque are absolute white, shades of grey give various degrees of transparency.

Hello Lesbentley

Could you once again  break this down.  How do I import it as an image map as its only in psd form.  Could you please give me a step by step and again thank you very much

Quote - Hello Lesbentley

Could you once again  break this down.  How do I import it as an image map as its only in psd form.  Could you please give me a step by step and again thank you very much

Photoshop will handle converting it to jpg or png. Do a Save As...

Poser can handle PSD except that those files are size prohibitive.  Enter Photoshop, load your PSD, make a copy, flatten that image, then do the Save As... as Robyn suggested.

But I already see by your post that you have converted it to jpeg.

Try this :

Make your image as a .psd (the background layer fill as black, the other your image)
Save everything as say figure image .jpg. PS will automatically collapse everything.

Next go back to your .psd, go to your image layer and adjust the brightness to 255 and contrast to 255.  It should look like a white figure on a black background.  Save everything as say figure image mask.jpg.  PS will automatically collapse everything

In Poser whatever, get that one sided square that LB is talking about.  Then in your material room click on it and follow LB's example exactly.  Jan

Okay I flattened the image and saved it both as a jpeg and a png...but how to you import it..that option is not available on the import button..the only way to import a jpeg or a png is a background image and then I am back to square one.

Please advise and thanks everybody for all your help.

First, how familiar are you with nodes that are used in the material room? Jan

Jan..not very but could work thru them if you present it step by step.  Thank you.

Once you have your one sided square that you brought up in the Pose Room, you switch to the Material Room and that is where you create your two nodes.  This is how it is done.

Look closely at the Poser Surface channels.

One the right side of them you will see a tiny male plug, click on the very top channel male plug it and NEW NODE will be displayed, pass your cursor over it and you will get a another drop down window, move your cursor over 2D textures, another drop down menu will be displayed, click on image_map, the texture node will then  be connected to that male plug.  See LB's display setup.  Now on that new node, click on Image Source, then Browse and find your image.

Now do the same thing with the transparency channel (See LB's example), but this time search for your white figure on black background .jpg.

Now you should have your two required nodes, one is connected to the Diffuse_color channel and the other is connected to the Transparency Channel.  Now  follow LB's example.  Click on the numbers on the transparancy channel and you will see a dial, with the cursor and left mouse button depressed move your cursor over the dial, your number should increase. Increase it until it is 1.00000, this move makes the background completely transparent.

With all the other dials ensure that the numbers are set as LB's example.

That should do it!  The square will disappear and your image should be displayed.  That image will also cast a shadow.  Jan

I really think this should be illustrated for easier identification of the Material Room steps.

Thank you.  Is there more to the tutorial?  I am trying to use rons blood 45.

Can  you show us the image. jpg and the mask (what you have so far)?  If you got it in the Pose room, show us that too.  Jan 

Let's jump into Poser.  Before I enter the Material Room, I load a one-sided square into my scene from my primitive props.  And it will appear as above.  Andy's legs are in the way, but it gives you the dimension of scale with introduced into the scene. 

Would I skip some steps with rons blood number 45 as it does not have any transparencies where you can the background.
  Please advise.
Thank you for all your help.

It appears that your post is incomplete.  Could you repost and clarify exactly what you would like to accomplish?

How the heck did I print a blank post..anyway I am using rons blood number 45..do I need to use the magic wand on that or not?  If I do not are the steps the same?  Thank you for all your help.

Now your post shows up...I am having problems today.  Sorry, my problem is that I am using the #45 in the rons blood collection and it does not appear to have any section where you can see the background..so would I need to use the magic wand on this selection?  If I do not need to use the magic wand..are the steps the same...thank you.

Is the entire image just blood texture from frame to frame, or is there an image on a white background?  I will need to search my own files for this particular PSD.  If you can provide a screencap, I will know for sure.

The blood can be on a white background but its not needed.  I just a jpeg of roller skates in this pool of blood.  Does that help?  Thank you.

I just looked at the rons blood 45, the same procedure I described applies.  In essence, what you really would like to accomplish is to create a transparency map which can be used in Poser to isolate the image from the background.  Now if you are doing post-work, then the image can be used in whatever manner you chose without performing the tute I outlined.

Thats exactly what I want..too bad there werent any roller skates in that picture..will start to work and advise..thank you.  So you did all the above steps to the blood shown in your andy picture?

Yep.

Quote - You can load a Poser 1 sided square, load your texture onto it, and you prolly either need to save your texture as  PNG to preserve the transparency, or make a transparency map.

I agree with this, i have used the "square texture trick" allot, after loading it onto your cube you can flatten it to make the square your image rests on a thin, set like prop.  I have done this for posters, a height wall and various such props.