I seen a lot of pictures created where the background is created in photoshop and the poser character is put on top of that background. How do you do that so that there is not a white or black outline surrounding the poser picture?

If you export your render in *.TIF format, you will get an alpha channel of your render, with the alpha channel you can select exactlly what you're after...and copy your figure(outline free) into a new image...Occasionally you'll still get a tiny bit of outline, but this can be taken care of by defringing 1 pixle worth...

One way to just change to a different color is in Poser, use the paint bucket (C), then click on the background. The color picker will appear, and you can choose one from there.

In the Layer Menu, choose Matting --> Defringe. Enter a value of 1 or 2 and that should take care of it for you. This only works on white or black fringe areas. Look in the index under "Fringe" in your manual for other techniques. -Jim

if you export a tiff image of a figure on a blue background (or any colour you like), you should get an alpha channel when you open it in photoshop. you use the alpha channel to mask out all the background. you click the channels tab, select the alpha channel at the bottom (might be called number 4), deselect the rgb channel. then you load the selection and apply it as a layer mask to the imported image. You can also click on the blue background (if you don't like using the alpha channel) and delete it, but then you're gonna get some blue fringes around the figure.

Thanks everyone . . .the help has been great!! Datastorm

miss nancy beat me to it nice tut stu-art

You have another option. You can make your background picture in another program and then import it into Poser and render. Ron