Okay, I know I've asked this question at least once. But I haven't been on renderosity in a long time, and it's also been awhile since I've posted anything in my gallery too. Anyway, I still need some help with adding backdrops/backgrounds to scenes for my outdoor scenes and scenes involving windows where I may need to include an outside environment reflective from the inside. I tried using the "add background" feature on Poser 7, but backgrounds look terribly flat and pasted that way.

I'm not Photoshop suave so I don't know how to photomanipulate to where I can blend images together, is there a way of doing this? Though I understand it will require some knowledge and use of the program for stuff like adding sunrays through windows. Lately I've been investing in buying special effects which will eliminate the use of me having to do that with photoshop for my action scenes that may require fire, smoke, flash bangs, etc when I can just buy these effects easily and add them in a scene quick. I love that, and I know it may sound like I'm just too lazy to do it the hard way with Photoshop, but I'm a busy person and I do A LOT of heavy writing for my scenes so time is important.

I tried to look for tutorials for creating backgrounds into my renders but a lot of the steps you have to take just to do that is too much for my taste. I know some people that have done this within seconds without having to go through 20 and above steps through photoshop just to get a realistic blended image effect for adding a sky or other backgrounds into their work. I don't know if their doing this in the preview without rendering, or they render a scene without anything in the sky above the scene and then go into photoshop and just blend a background/wallpaper image into the scene that way.

The example is shown at the top of the sunset environment, You see how well and perfect the backdrop is blended in with the render of The Folly scene? There are a lot of images like this on Daz featuring outdoor environments, and indoor environments with windows of a scene outside of the window blended to make it appear as if that is what appears to be on the outside of the house, castle, etc. Not knowing how to do this seriously limits my ability to do scenes that involve being able to see in the sky and beyond. I do a lot of my renders in close up or only with the cameras mostly focused on the characters so you only get to see what's above them when they are indoors, such as the roof. When they are outdoors in an environment like the alley scene I normally use, I never face the camera up at the sky or anywhere else where there is plain nothingness because of the lack of photo blending skill that I have.

If anyone can explain this to me, I can try to attempt doing it tonight. If I must use Photoshop, then are there any good steps to help with doing this with Poser scenes? Most tutorials only tell you how to blend the image that they are using in the tutorial, not how to blend in general. 

There are a lot of backdrops/Backgrounds that can be bought here, some of them look great. Judging by the way characters are blended into those backgrounds. I am still trying to figure out how it's done properly. I also added a link to an art piece by Maddelirium where they blended a background scene with their figure. Not sure if the platform she's standing on is an actual scene or a background with the figure blended onto it.