Product Name: Taylor River Artist: Rowan54 (also known as Rowan Ainslie Chisholm, legally known as Penelope B. Chisholm) Copyright 2016 Penelope B. Chisholm Items: 22 photos in jpg format. 2848x1896 pixels. (5.4 megapixels each). Packet about 26 MB. Compatibility: All photos are in jpg format. This product was created on a Windows PC. Camera: Kodak EasyShare C613 Product was formerly at YURdigital. ******************* These are 22 5.4 megapixel photos for backgrounds in a jpg format, created on a PC. Unzip the files where ever you keep background .jpg files. These are NOT in a runtime. In Poser 10 (other Poser versions should be similar): File/Import/Background picture/brouse to where you keep the photos. Poser hints: Turn ground plane off. Also, Poser seems to render just the characters so that you can make layers with shadows and background in an image editor program such as Photoshop. Move lights so the characters are lit the same as the background. Daz Studio 4.9 (64 bit) (other Daz Studio versions shouuld be similar): Windows/Panes/Environment/Brouse to where you keep the photos. Daz Studio hints: Shift the ground plane grid so that it matches the groundplane of the photo so that characters don't look like they're floating. Move lights so the characters are lit the same as the background. I've left "standing space" in the front of each picture to make putting characters in easier. Not much space, sometimes, but some. ******************* These are great locations for explorers, native tribes, lost in the woods scenes, hiking, camping, anything that needs a wilderness area. Also, they'd make great backdrops for a "fashion shoot: with your 3D characters. Another idea: Use them as framed photos on the walls of your character's house. I've also used photos like these outside the windows of a 3D house to give a feeling of *place* behind the scenes. ******************* Information on where I took the photos: Location: The Taylor River is wild mountain river in the Cascade mountains of Washington state. This is way back up there at about where the roads run out and the trails start that the explorers, miners, and native tribes used to use to cross the mountains before roads were built. These days people go there to fish, camp, hike, take photos, and pan for gold. The Taylor River runs into the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, which runs into the Snoqualmie River, which joins with the Skykomish River to become the Snohomish River which eventually flows into Puget Sound. Confused? Wikipedia has pages for both Taylor River and Snoqualmie River. Those might help a little. Description of the scene: The area near the river was covered with boulders. These boulders have no vegetation on them because the river shifts them yearly during winter floods. Some of the boulders pictured are the size of small cars. Further from the river were more boulders piled into the surrounding trees. These were covered with moss showing that they'd been there at least a year or two. Trails, when any existed, were difficult, twisty and narrow. Mostly trails went from the dirt road to the tree line. There were no trails near the river. Scrambling about upon the boulders along the river was slow, careful work considering that the boulders (most were heavier than I was) had a potential for being unstable, and I did not want them shifting when I was climbing over or around them. I did not want to be injured. A broken leg would have either required at least a 20 mile bumpy ride on dirt roads to the nearest paved road and then about another 20 to a small clinic, or an airlift -- after someone drove at least 20 miles to find signal for their cell phone or to find someone with a landline phone. As a result, I didn't go far either upstream or down from where the friend I was riding with was panning for gold, mostly just to where he was just out of sight from either direction, and then walked back. Well, climbed over things to get back. This place is *so* not a city park!!! ******************* Backgrounds: Taylor_01_R54.jpg Taylor_02_R54.jpg Taylor_03_R54.jpg Taylor_04_R54.jpg Taylor_05_R54.jpg Taylor_06_R54.jpg Taylor_07_R54.jpg Taylor_08_R54.jpg Taylor_09_R54.jpg Taylor_10_R54.jpg Taylor_11_R54.jpg Taylor_12_R54.jpg Taylor_13_R54.jpg Taylor_14_R54.jpg Taylor_15_R54.jpg Taylor_16_R54.jpg Taylor_17_R54.jpg Taylor_18_R54.jpg Taylor_19_R54.jpg Taylor_20_R54.jpg Taylor_21_R54.jpg Taylor_22_R54.jpg Documentation: Taylor_River_readme license