Compositing can be a wonderful way to create artworks. It involves combining several seperate Poser renders together or combining a Poser render with a background picture - sort of like the blue-screen technique you see in movies.
When working on large and complex fantasy scenes for example, the strain of rendering all the items in the scene - characters, outfits, props, background stage - can be too much for Poser to handle all at once - so it makes absolute sense to render them seperately and combining them together to form your final artwork using your favorite photopainter.
So how does compositing works? Lets take the two items below as examples for our tutorial. The picture on the left is a Poser render that I would like to combine with the background picture you see on the right.
In order to do this, first, you need to render your Poser character without any background objects behind it - ie: do a plain render of just your character and her outfit. Next, save your render as a .png file. When you open up this render in your photopainter, it'll look like the one below - showing just your character on a transparent background.
Select and copy your character and paste it on the earlier background picture and you're all done - your first composite artwork :)
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