When you import a picture into Poser, it resamples it to the size of your document window (and doesn't do it very well). So that only works in the special case where the size of the picture, the size of your document window and the size of your final render are all the same - not very useful.

In addition to the square prop suggested by the good folks above me, you can also render without a background and save to PSD, PNG or TIF. These formats include an alpha channel which can be used as a mask in Photoshop / Paint Shop Pro, so you can composite the render and the original background pic post-render. - Edit - Further to what xantor said, if you use the background prop; set its material colour to black, and ambient to white. This prevents scene elements from casting a shadow on the prop.

Message edited on: 06/27/2005 05:08